Vladimir Vysotsky. The People's Man. An Attempt to Read the Biography

Vladimir Vysotsky wrote more than seven hundred songs and poems, played iconic roles in theater and cinema.
He was one of the few Soviet people who could travel freely around the world. But was his life really as easy and cloudless as it might have seemed at first glance?
He always lived on the edge and went headfirst, never recognizing a sense of measure. He lived only forty-two years. Yet, both during his life and forty years after his death, his biography remains a subject of intense debate.
This book is yet another attempt to try to understand and decipher some facets of this unique personality, and most importantly – to attempt to answer the questions: what made him this way, where did the tragic tension in his songs come from, and the pulsating raw nerve in his poems?..
With their thoughts and memories of Vladimir Vysotsky and how they relate to various aspects of his life and creativity, share the poet's cousin Irina Vysotskaya, colleagues from the acting profession Larisa Luzhina and Nikolai Burlyaev, screenwriter Ilya Rubinstein, director and screenwriter Andrei Levitsky, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Our Contemporary" Stanislav Kunyaev, rock musician Alexander F. Sklyar, poet and literary scholar Konstantin Kedrov, sculptor and artist Grigory Pototsky, and many others…