Were Voznesensky and Yevtushenko friends or foes? What did the poet Aragon and the artist Picasso, the existentialist Sartre and the beatnik Ginsberg, the philosopher Heidegger and the playwright Miller find in the young Ascension? Why the chairman of the Belarusian collective farm Comrade Bedulya and... Jacqueline Kennedy? Is it true that Brodsky not only slandered about him, but invited him to his coffee and discussed his favorite cats? Why was Voznesensky not given the Nobel Prize, although they were going to?