 According to the norms of the time, "realists" were not given medals.This piece of history was described in greater detail for the first time in the book (published 1990) "The School on Vasilievskii", authored by several former "May-bugs"—academic D.S.Likhachev, school historian N.V. Blagovo, and literary theorist E. B. Belodubrovskii.