Traditional lecture by the Nobel laureate in literature. Read on December 7, 2015 in Russian at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Published in English, Swedish, French, German and Russian on the website The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.