Mikhail Kazinik is an art critic, 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. In his book, he talks not only about famous composers, writers, and artists but also about how unexpectedly the fates and creations of those who lived in different epochs and countries intertwine. These interconnections of music, literature, and painting are often not noticed at once, but once you discover them, you become so interested that you want to seek various parallels yourself. Because it is extraordinarily interesting, and only in this way do you grow beyond yourself, beginning to see the world and people differently. Which geniuses are discussed in the book? Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pasternak, Shakespeare, Kafka, Rembrandt, El Greco, Michelangelo…
