Abstract
Abstract In 1926, in one of his travel sketches that later became part of the book Visa of the Times [Viza vremeni], Ilya Ehrenburg shared the following fear with his contemporaries: This summer in Abramtsevo I gazed at the maples in the garden and the comfortable armchairs. Now, Aksakov had time to think about everything. His correspondence with Gogol is an unhurried inventory of his soul and his times. What will we leave behind us? A receipt: "A hundred received" (written out). We have neither maples nor armchairs, and we rest from the devastating bustle of editorial offices and waiting rooms in the compartments of railway cars or on the deck of a ship. This, probably, bears its own truth. Time today has acquired a fast car. And one cannot yell at the car: "Stop, I want to look at you in more detail!" One can only talk about the fleeting glint of its lights.
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