On June 12, 2013, during a rally, Pavel Arsenyev, defending prisoners of the Bolotnaya case, was detained for reading poetry “in the wrong place,” after which, while at the police station on the street. Chekhov wrote the poem " Russia Day ". A month later, Alexander Zhitenev’s polemical essay “ Megaphone as a tool of production ” (Colta.ru) was very much devoted to this. A year later, the poem itself appeared in R.