When I was little, back in the 60s, my teacher Maria Vasilievna once said in class: “There is no God.” And I answered her: “Maria Vasilyevna, you say that there is no God, but at the same time you want us to love Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy. But they were all believers.” And she kicked me out of class. She said: “Fedya, don’t be insolent!” I left the class, walked along the seashore (we lived in a fishing village) and thought: “Maria Vasilyevna is a good teacher, but she’s no smarter than Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy and Gogol?” />
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