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 your whole world upside down – both internal and external. 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 eras and countries intertwine. These interweavings of music, literature, and painting are often not immediately noticeable, but once you learn about them, you become so interested that you want to seek out all sorts of parallels yourself. Because this is extraordinarily interesting, because this is the only way to grow beyond yourself, to start seeing both the world and people differently. Which geniuses are we talking about in the book? About Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pasternak, Shakespeare, Kafka, Rembrandt, El Greco, Michelangelo…
