Boris Khazanov (Gennady Moiseevich Faibusovich) was born in 1928. He studied at the classical department of the philological faculty of Moscow State University. In the fifth year he was arrested (1949) on charges of anti-Soviet agitation, released in 1955. He graduated from the Kalinin Medical Institute, worked as a doctor, then as an editor, printed popular science books for schoolchildren under a pseudonym, and translated Leibniz's letters. He published prose in samizdat and foreign publications, in 1982 he emigrated to Germany. He was one of the co-founders and publishers of the Russian magazine "Country and World" (Munich, 1984-1992). Lives in Munich. He has published eight books of prose and essays in Russia, the USA, Germany, France, Italy and Israel. A master of the narrative genre, in which Khazanov's times and cultural-archetypal motives intersect and mix. The works of B. Khazanov have been translated into a number of European languages, he is a laureate of several literary prizes. "Myth Russia," something like a large essay, originally not intended for Russian readers.