Ilya Milstein What can I say, Pushkin turned out to be more elegant. I mean the reception with which the hero of the satirical poem was ridiculed twice. First, in that impossible manner, which the author himself, as it were, rejected. It is impossible , they say, to write: such and such a de old man, a goat with glasses, a plump slanderer, and angry and mean: all this will be a person. However, an estimated judgment can be expressed and without moving to personality, right?