Alexey Lyubzhin - Doctor of Sciences in Philology, Research Fellow at the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the Science Library, Moscow State University. Address: 9 Mokhovaya Str., 103073 Moscow, Russian Federation. E-mail: vulture@mail.ru

It appears relevant to provide a critical review of the presented book as a manifesto of conservative views, so popular today, and as an indicator of the disorientation of modern society, which has a poor knowledge of the Russian school and thus sees its traditions in things that pronouncedly contradict them. The review provides an analysis of Vsevolod Troitsky’s perspective on teaching literature in school, the list of authors he finds advisable to include in school syllabi, his conception of historicism in teaching literature, and his ideas of the old Russian and Soviet schools.