The mind cannot understand Russia. From the Marquis de Custine to Joseph Brodsky

The memories of the Russian poet Stanislav Kunyaev are overwhelmed by more than sixty years of today"s history of Russia. On these pages, readers will meet with many famous people of the era, with whom the author of "memories and thoughts" lived his life. Among them are poets - Nikolai Rubtsov, Boris Slutsky, Anatoly Perevyev, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Alexander Mezhirov, composer Georgy Sviridov, historian and critic Vadim Kozhinov, prose writer Viktor Astafyev, Valentin Rasputin, Vasily Belov and others ...
This book is not only and not so much about the "elite" as about the secrets of Russian fate with its heroic ups and tragic falls, it is abundantly saturated with letters, diaries, photographs, first published from the author’s personal archive.
In this book in the focus of the author’s attention-the dramatic events of the 80-90s of the XX century and the fate of the poets of that time