To admit, I thought that the story about Professor Svitelsky and a quote from Belinsky was another internet joke.
No, it turned out to be true.
Book "Hillarovsky", Mitrofanov A.G., "The Young Guard", Moscow, 2008
The quote:
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It was worse with the body itself. The poet Koltsov wrote about this critic Belinsky: "Theatre we have, and so ugly that it is ugly to be in it: men are ugly, and women are ugly. They play all the same tragedies, dramas, comedies, vodevils, operas, melodrams, ballets and all sorts of other things. “Revisors” and “Hamlets” are nothing. The fees are good. With as much risk as possible, we have a lot to win.”
One could blame Koltsov for some bias, but the Koltsov address himself, Visarian Belinsky, in case attested the same Voronezh Theatre even more strictly:
These are the words of Belinsky.
Ura to! I finally found a quote on the internet that actually took place! and :)