Heroes are not our time. Kharlamov, Tarasov, Yashin, Beskov in the stories of relatives, friends and students

About each of the four great heroes of this book - Valeria Kharlamov, Anatoly Tarasov, Lev Yashin and Konstantin Beskov - millions of lines were written. But the author of the “heroes of not our time”, the famous sports journalist and writer Igor Rabiner, went the other way that will allow you to look at these people in a new way. Having pushed away from his conversations with Kharlamov’s sister, the daughter of Tarasov, the wives of Yashin and Beskov, he brought together stories about them relatives, friends, colleagues and students. There is neither pathos exaltation, nor a low -grade "yellowness", but there are hundreds of stories that created four voluminous collective portraits. Before you are people, not monuments, and in their fate dramas, or even tragedies are no less than victories. They have been gone with us for a long time, but in this book they come to life on all its brightness, scale, and often the inconsistency of their personalities