Vladimir Vysotsky wrote more than seven hundred songs and poems, played cult roles in theater and cinema. He was one of the few Soviet people who could travel freely around the world. But was everything so easy and cloudless in his life as it might seem at first glance? He always lived in extremes and went ahead, not recognizing a sense of proportion in anything. He lived only forty-two years. But both during his lifetime and forty years after his death, his biography is still the subject of fierce debate. This book is another attempt to try to understand unravel some facets of this unique personality, and most importantly - to try to answer questions: what made him so, where did this tragic tear come from in his songs, and a pulsating bare nerve in his poems?.. With their thoughts and memories of Vladimir Vysotsky and how they relate to different aspects of his life and work, the poet's cousin Irena Vysotskaya, colleagues in the acting workshop Larisa Luzhina and Nikolai Burlyaev share...