This whole story is built around the dialogue of two great people: an outstanding thinker and a great poetess of the past century. The fable about the confrontation between hedgehog and fox, which has not survived to this day, appears in this story as a very unusual look at the entire literary process. The eternal confrontation between a tyrant and a poet unfolds in completely new circumstances, when this poet is a woman. These two are immediately guessed. Not a single name was uttered, but it is obvious that the authors of such difficult dialogues are one of the brightest thinkers of the twentieth century - Isaiah Berlin and the great poetess Anna Akhmatova ..