From the travel notes of free commentator Viktor Shchebny Having recently found himself in Spain on Slavic matters, the famous free commentator Viktor Shcheben discovered in one of the best museums in Madrid an entire hall dedicated to Vladimir Mayakovsky. Surprised by this strange sign of attention to the Soviet poet, who clearly did not favor Spain, Shcheben, as usual, plunged into the literary and regional context - and this is what he managed to find out [1].