In this book, the work of Vladimir Vysotsky is considered in the context of Russian culture of the 20th century. In total, it contains twenty-four chapters: "Vysotsky and Bulgakov," "Vysotsky and Mayakovsky," "Vysotsky and Yesenin," "Vysotsky and Erdman," "Vysotsky and Gumilyov," "Vysotsky and Akhmatova," "Vysotsky and Mandelstam," "Vysotsky and Pasternak," "Vysotsky and Schwartz," "Vysotsky and IlfPetrov," "Vysotsky and Chichibabin," "Vysotsky and Korzhavin," "Vysotsky and Brodsky," "Vysotsky and Strugatsky," "Vysotsky and the Sinyavsky-Daniel case," "Vysotsky and Erofeev," "Vysotsky and Galich," "Vysotsky and Okudzhava," "Vysotsky and Aleshkovsky," "Vysotsky and Gorodnitsky," "Vysotsky and Klyachkin," "Vysotsky and the sixties poets," "Vysotsky and Mezhirov," "Vysotsky and children's poets."