Vysotsky lived and worked in times that "needed" a voice thwarted by despair - he rehabilitated the cry in Russian poetry. It was a release of special energy that penetrated into the thoughts and feelings of people, fell into them "not in the ears, but in the souls." The disease of our time is the lack of demand for eternal truths, the very life-building truths by which they "made life." And Vysotsky - maybe only Vysotsky - fills this niche. He is the most published and most cited poet of the late XX - early XXI century. And more importantly, they continue to listen and sing. And in order to more accurately and fully understand Vysotsky's poems and songs, you need to know how he lived.