“We, modest school teachers, have a much more decent and familiar classroom audience for talking about Russian classics, and in general, to be honest with you, going here and learning that this is the Great Hall and not the Small Hall, I became somewhat timid. But then, out of habit, I consoled myself with a quote from Mayakovsky: “This house of Herzen is worthless,” and realized that everything was not so scary. In general, Mayakovsky’s ability to still console suffering humanity with some quotes, words, and techniques is amazing. Despite the fact that, it would seem, the era of Mayakovsky is gone irrevocably, he himself was safely buried by the majority of his contemporaries, and even more so his descendants, and even the main argument against any social transformations was his suicide, which became, if not the main fact of his biography, then his main work..."