“What is a “Chaldean”? These essays about the “Chaldeans” were written shortly after the publication of “The Shkid Republic”. At that time, the author might not have explained to the reader what “Chaldean” is and what it is eaten with. A person who studied in a Soviet school in the first years of the revolution well remembered this pitiful, sometimes comical, and sometimes disgusting figure of a charlatan teacher, a rogue teacher, a loser teacher and a wretched person... This is exactly the type we received in Shkida (yes, it seems, and not only here) the old Bursat nickname of the Chaldeans..."