“If evil was to be stopped, all the books would be taken away and burned.” Griboyedov, “Woe from Wit” First, the INION library burned down, five and a half million volumes were destroyed, many of them unique, unrecoverable, non-digitized, lost forever. Then Ekaterina Yuryevna Genieva, an example of an intellectual librarian, a professional librarian, dies...

I never dreamed of becoming a librarian, but I accidentally became and accidentally stayed in this profession, which I sometimes regret, but more often than not, I still don't. The pay is not that generous, but enough for life, and it is never boring. So…