“...More than anyone else, he freed himself from Gogol’s one-sided belittlement of life, I say after all, he is Leo Tolstoy - and grew first to the military heroes of the 12th year, and then simply to the modern adjutant of the wing - Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky. I want to talk about Vronsky in more detail and, by the way, about why we need Vronsky much more and more dearly than Leo Tolstoy himself. Without these Tolstoys (that is, without great writers), a great people can live a long time, but We won’t live even half a century without the Vronskys. Without them, there will be no national writers; for there will be no distinctive nation..."