“For a long time, within the walls of the school, a fierce war was waged between the authorities and the students. The opponents, like two enemy armies, noticed each other’s weak points, cheated, tracked down, and took revenge. Instructions, people and morals changed. The very building of the theological seminary, similar to a barracks or a monastery hotel, was rebuilt, but one thing remained unchanged: the essence for which the war was fought. And just as they used to look for the works of Belinsky and Gogol in the bedrooms under the pillows, so twenty or fifty years later they looked for Leo Tolstoy, Flerovsky, Pisarev, Chernyshevsky or the latest book of a modern magazine...”