From the author: Dear readers! I would like some of you to believe that the so-called non-normative speech of the characters is not a consequence of the author’s linguistic promiscuity, but an artistic necessity, which, in my opinion, is the duty of any writer who considers himself a realist writer to follow. That is, the speech of a former thief, a pickpocket or a peasant, or a hard worker and a drunkard, cannot in any way be the speech of a professor, the speech of a lecturer, a preacher, and so on.