“Hello, dear friends! I admit, I take on this topic with some joy, because usually, when you start talking about someone beloved by everyone, you immediately find yourself in the position of encroaching on the sacred. Everyone has their own ideas about an idol, and this idol is always very difficult to understand: any attempt at analysis is already perceived as blasphemy. There are several names that cannot be scolded at all: for example, the idol of the intelligentsia, Dovlatov, is in fact not the intelligentsia, but the philistine, and especially the emigration community. A mediocrity that defends everyone's right to be mediocrity. Therefore, as soon as you scold Dovlatov, not even scold him, but simply express doubt about his status, you immediately become the enemy of all mediocrity, and by definition there are quite a lot of them. Or Tsvetaeva. As soon as you tell you something about Tsvetaeva that lies beyond the imagination of her fanatical fans, you are immediately an enemy of the people and a blasphemer...”