About the book: 2001 / "...I will allow myself to refer to the notes of N. A. Kiselev, the son of a landscape painter, who in Van Myasoedov met a child who did not want recognize the word “impossible”. He responded to every “no” with a vile, disgusting howl. He immediately “began to reveal his negative sides, which is what my mother was so afraid of. He turned out to be completely ill-mannered. He was not in the least familiar with the most primitive rules of conduct.” No matter how much the kindest Sofya Matveevna fought with him, nothing worked, and her hands soon gave up: “A fiend of hell!” What will come of it is scary to think…»