Abstract
"I thought, and I still do think—even in moments of euphoria, when we elected Fedor Mikhailovich, who remembers this in-house meeting—that Burlatskii is not the person Literaturnaia gazeta needs. … I can give many examples of his complete indifference to its fate. He needed it as, we might say, a tribune; he felt himself a lord within it. However, the question of lack of confidence in Burlatskii should be decided in his presence."