Once at a literary lesson, the teacher asked what was the essence of the silent scene at the end of Gogol's play "Revizor". I had a book with excerpts from Gogol's letters to friends, I quickly reviewed them and found one where he wrote about this scene, said, will best show the shock of the heroes, a spectacular ending. And I sounded. The teacher said that this thought only pulls the four. I told my mother at home, they burned. The fourth is the thought of Gogol. On the four...