[Кирилл Сызранский]

Feed true peasant folk passions raged on the ground, and there was no protection from it.

It is for the clergy and the blow fell most of these people have broken the brutal passions.

Each gentleman was a relative of the Freethinkers, and sometimes just the revolutionaries, and help those rescued family, gave her some rights.

The clergy had no such reference.

Was particularly hard hit by a narrow layer of liberal scholars priests from Bulgakov and Florensky. If Bulgakov, Florensky, Berdyaev, Sorokin with difficulty, but still able to find a way out for or in Moscow, the capital, then at least for the provincial Freethinkers was spared. They beat - destroyed, emasculate - and the "Black Hundreds" in revenge for the fight, and power - on a fundamental dogmatic position.

It suffered a severe blow, and father. In addition he has killed his beloved son, and he was blind. But Mom, I repeat, did not write a play about a dead God, and fourteen years alone fighting for life.

Then he died.

Father avenged all - and for all. For literacy, for intelligence. All historical passion of the Russian people gushing over the threshold of our house. However, we are thrown out of the house, with a minimum throw things. Our apartment has offered the city prosecutor.

And let me not "sing" about the people. Not "sing" to the peasantry. I know what it is. Let the speculators and dealers do not sing that intellectuals in front of someone to blame.

Intellectuals to no one's fault. It is just the opposite. People, if such a thing exists, indebted to its intellectuals.

Varlam Shalamov "Fourth Vologda".