The book of the writer and journalist Vasily Golovanov presents articles and essays written by him in different years (1980s-2010s) and devoted to anarchism and anarchists. The portraits he painted are as controversial as those he painted from. Some of the heroes are close and loved for him (Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Kropotkin, Vasily Nalimov, Arman Gatti), someone (like Mikhail Bakunin or Nestor Makhno) is incomprehensible and even alien, but at the same time constitutes "crossroads of Russian life," past which it is impossible to pass.