Where are we and where is Russian literature? The answer is here. Everything is here, close and near, no matter how many years have passed and where we may be. "Simply Classics!" is a book for free reading. It was written by the writer, philologist, and teacher Alexander Arkhangelsky*. Its addressee is anyone who is interested in learning. Myths and theater, Antiquity and the Enlightenment, poor Liza and poor Katerina, Pushkin and Gogol, Tatyana Tolstaya and Lyudmila Ulitskaya... What is all this, why do we need it? And how is everything connected to everything? The book contains 52 meetings, 52 topics, 52 creative tasks for those who are curious to go deeper. Why 52? According to the number of weeks in a year, so that in a year you can become an excellent reader and learn to better understand the classics.