Sergei Nosov is a prose writer, playwright, author of six novels, several books of stories and essays, as well as original works on the psychology of monuments; winner of the National Bestseller Award (for the novel “Curly Brackets”) and finalist of the “Big Book” (“Françoise, or the Path to the Glacier”). The new book “Constructing a Square in the Sixth Lesson” invites you to look at our lives from four unexpected sides and find out why it’s dangerous to spend the night at Akhmatova’s Komarov dacha, where Kerensky swam, what’s going on in the head of sixth-grader Roma, and why the author of this book climbed the Alexander Column...