Mikhail Kazinik – art historian, musician, writer, poet, philosopher, director, actor, playwright, educator, and one of the most erudite people of our time. Meeting him, without exaggeration, literally turns the whole world upside down – both the inner and the outer. To follow the thoughts of a great man is the most fascinating science, wrote Alexander Pushkin. About which great people is the new book by the author Paradoxes of Geniuses talking? About Pushkin, Gogol, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Andersen, Khlebnikov, Goethe, Batuchkov, Vyazemsky... Mikhail Kazinik easily yet profoundly tells about poetry and truth, rhyme and idea, reality and imagination, unfolds the hidden layers of meanings of well-known works, follows the utterances of great people and delves into what truly makes a person great. The book contains QR codes that allow listening to the works mentioned by the author.