“Terribly contemptuous and biased attitude towards the matter. However, it is not Merezhkovsky’s fault that his personal topic prevents him from paying any attention to anyone else’s topic; he is only to blame for the fact that he considered it necessary to criticize something about which he had nothing to do: the symbolic school of poetry (to which he himself, however, belongs); and for this, perhaps, he is not to blame, because in the difficult conditions of Russian culture, apparently, this irreconcilable enmity of contemporaries among themselves still lies; Everyone is just looking and looking for how to scold someone, moreover, the closer the person is, the more sarcastic and merciless. Who knows, maybe in those times when mutual relations between people in Russia become, as they say, completely cultural, someone will remember the old things and sigh about them as a golden childhood..."