From Shukshin to Tsvetaeva

Dmitry Alekseevich Machinsky (1937–2012) - St. Petersburg historian, archaeologist, many years of Hermitage, expert on Russian culture and literature. The book includes all his work discovered today, dedicated to Russian poets: A. Pushkin, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Blok, A. Akhmatova, M. Voloshin. During the life of the author, not one of them was published.
“The wide Petersburg public, he was most known for his lectures and performances that have been held for several decades at different sites of the city (..) The topic of the performance did not always play a decisive role. We went to Machinsky. Because they knew: whatever he was talking about - about the image on the famous Kelermes mirror or about the poem by A.K. Tolstoy My bells ... - the conversation will go about the essence, about the pain points of history, culture, human personality.