The literary program "Friends" under the heading "Episode", in which we usually focus on an important fragment of the great masterpieces of world literature, currently offers a conversation about the most important episode of Fyodor Dostoevsky's greatest novel, "The Brothers Karamazov", which the writer himself called the climax of the novel, "The Great Inquisitor" . This is a poem written by Ivan Karamazov, who "narrates" his writing to his younger brother, Alyosha Karamazov. No one knows if this poem exists only in the mind of this character or if it was actually written. Its content is briefly as follows: in the sixteenth century, in the era of the Autodafes and the bonfires of the Inquisition, Christ arrives in Seville. At first glance, the confrontation takes place between the head of the Inquisition, a seventy-year-old cardinal, and Christ, between the Catholic Church and Christ (at different times, Dostoevsky often emphasized the criticism of Catholicism in this episode). In fact, the conflict is deeper and is between the Church and Christ, the organized denomination and the concept of individual salvation. According to this poem, the church has several claims to Christ. First of all, it is a matter of freedom. Can a person have the freedom that Christ gives him, or must it be replaced by the happiness that the Church offers him? By the way, this happiness is also understood very materially and it actually coincides with well-being. What does a person prefer, freedom or happiness; Why did Christ not heed the advice of the "voice in the wilderness" (actually Satan); What does the church have to do with this "voice of the wilderness"; Why did people arrest Jesus Cardinal - everything will be discussed in the program.