Kormiltsev. Cosmos as a memory

In his new book, the famous music journalist, producer and writer Alexander Kushnir explores the biography of Ilya Kormiltsev - poet, translator, publisher, public figure, author of many hits of the Nautilus Pompilius groups, Nastya and Urfin Juss, which made up the Golden Fund Russian rock. This is both a fiction biography and a photo album dedicated to the memory of a great person. For the first time, hundreds of rare pictures found in the archives of the Kormiltsev family are reproduced for the first time among friends and colleagues of Ilya, in the storerooms of cult rock photographs. The text texture of the book is built on modern folklore - hundreds of exclusive interviews, taken for five years from musicians, friends, relatives, poets, writers, politicians and culturalists. Alexander Kushnir was personally acquainted with Ilya Kormiltsev, repeatedly interviewed him and collaborated as part of different projects. This publication is included in the series of books of Kushnir dedicated to the Life of Forbidden People. The story of Kormiltsevs continues the study of the fate of the underestimated geniuses of the domestic underground, begun in the book about Sergey Kuryokhin “The Mad Mechanics of Russian Rock”, which received the “Steppe Wolf” award in the nomination “The Best Rock Book of 2014”