“... The works of Mr. Chirikov are a valuable monument of the just “outlived time”, interesting pages from the diary of the intelligentsia who in the first half of the nineties replaced the progressives of “timelessness”, disappointed, not knowing the “road”, who stood on crossroads, which made a decisive “pass”, which rejected the belief in a critically thinking and morally strong personality, which made the progress of all human civilization dependent on the development of the bourgeois class, which saw in the course of history the operation of the laws of iron necessity, and which debunked itself by recognizing herself “powerless” before the action of these iron laws. ..."