"As I was "dictator". Pavel Basinsky - about personal experience of carrying out "A total dictation"

The fair non/fictionvesna took place from April 6 to April 9 in Gostiny dvor. Today even it is somehow strange to remember that once the Central House of Artists where it was terribly close not so much from abundance of books, how many from number of the people on small square meters was its platform. Here and on Thursday, in the fair opening day, bypassing Gostiny dvor from the street of Ilyinka to Varvarke Street and going to an entrance for participants of fair and the press, I once again was surprised: what it is huge, this "yard"! By the way, it arose to Russian Federation at the beginning of the XVI century and is for the first time mentioned in "Notes Moskovia" the Austrian envoy in Moscow...