During my stay at the Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia in Izhevsk, I heard a story that, I think, perfectly characterizes the attitude of current reformers to Russian science.

Shortly after the FANO began the inspection of the subordinate institutions, the inspector — an unnamed young man from the generation of effective menagers — visited Kunstkamera. Walked around the cabinets, looked at the situation with the technology, got acquainted with the directions of scientific research, and then returned to the office of the director J.K. and clean.

Apparently, what he saw was not very striking in the context of effectiveness, so in a conversation with the director he asked the question:

- I wonder, and who gave you such a building in the center of St. Petersburg?! to
“Peter the First,” replied Yuri Kirillovich.