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Updated: June 4, 2025
Would you believe it, our teachers were all intellectual, right-minded people, brought up on Turgenev and Shtchedrin, yet this little chap, who always went about with goloshes and an umbrella, had the whole high-school under his thumb for fifteen long years! High-school, indeed he had the whole town under his thumb!
For instance, you set the boys in the eighth class an essay on 'Pushkin as a Psychologist. To begin with, you shouldn't set such a difficult subject; and, secondly, Pushkin was not a psychologist. Shtchedrin now, or Dostoevsky let us say, is a different matter, but Pushkin is a great poet and nothing more." "Shtchedrin is one thing, and Pushkin is another," Nikitin answered sulkily.
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