Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (1929–1974) - writer, actor, director, idol of several generations of readers and viewers. Where did this real miracle come from? How did Shukshin achieve his victories? Who surrounded him in childhood, youth, at the peak of success? Who were his women? What did he think about the Motherland and the world? The authors build their own version of the life and work of Vasily Makarovich Shukshin, often refuting with documents and evidence common, philistine rumors about the Master, but without hiding the whole truth about him known to them. Shukshin once personally gave one of them, the writer and playwright Yevgeny Popov, a start in Russian literature, the other - prose writer, poet, journalist Mikhail Gundarin - spent almost his entire life near Srostki, in Altai. “As a VGIK student and Romm’s student, I read it with great interest. Everything is accurate..." Vadim Abdrashitov "Shukshin still remains undeciphered, the underwater part of the iceberg is still hidden. Evgeny Popov and Mikhail Gundarin continue to discover Shukshin, and they stretch a thread from the bygone Soviet nature - to us today, to the burning modernity. This book was written not only with interest, but, most importantly, with love.” Vasily Avchenko “In the free, passionate and biased dialogue of two writers, Shukshin appears at the same time as both the most expressive face of his era and an exception from it.” Sergei Shargunov “This is a strong book about Shukshin - not a biography, not literary criticism, but an attempt to understand why Shukshin loves the people, like few of his sons.” Roman Senchin
