About the book: year / Dobrolyubov's review continues the denunciation of the administration of the Main Pedagogical Institute, which Dobrolyubov began in his student years. "... All these thoughts came to our minds about the many frivolous rumors that accompanied the closure of the Main Pedagogical Institute. People who had not previously spoken a single word about him or even praised him in every possible way now began to scold him at all costs. They began to talk about his fundamental inconsistency with the requirements of sound pedagogy, about the falsity of the system that had recently dominated in him, about the shortcomings its administrative and economic structure, etc. Let’s assume that these rumors are even fair, let’s assume that there really were a lot of shortcomings... But why were they silent about them throughout the existence of the institute - why did they only recently start talking about them in society, both in administration and in literature?…»