Diary of Alexander Evgenievich Popov, director of one of the best physics and mathematics in Russia. lyceums, Chelyabinsk 31st, unique reading. Before us are the reflections and reflections of a man who is obviously greater than the System, but by fate and his choice is doomed to work in it. Now that Popov is being persecuted “at the state level” (in April 2013, a criminal case was opened against him, trying to convict him of “complicity in taking a bribe”), the republication of this diary is especially relevant. He contains all of Popov, the man, the teacher, and the writer. All - with his directness and passion, with his excitement and defenselessness, with a willingness to stand to the end and a thirst to escape from the “adult world”. Popov does not think of himself as an “adult”. An adult for him means inanimate, frozen. That is why he is bored and sad from the sight of our, if I may say so, “education”, that is why he runs away from officials of all stripes and ranks, that is why all his “director’s” life he feels like he is on the cross: and he cannot leave (well, how can he leave this “a holiday that is always with you,” these children and this school kingdom sounding with children’s voices), and staying is like death... In fact, before us is not just a diary, before us is a martyrology.