Affair of the former Russia's defence minister Anatoly Serdyukov became the basis of this book. The ex-minister avoided criminal penalty only thanks to intervention of very influential officials. The author tried to understand in this case, using logic and imagination. All real surnames in the book are changed, however the reader, undoubtedly, will be able to draw the corresponding conclusions. The second part of the book speaks about events 2013 when there were rumors about resignation of the prime minister. The author assumed that initiators of this resignation managed to reach desirable result. The high-ranking officials and oligarchs became participants of this affair.
This book is written in the same style what is characteristic for Bykov's statements – sometimes serious, sometimes ironic, most often paradoxical. Paying tribute to numerous talents of Bykov, the author suggested that the reason of his fertility is that there are many Bykovs: poet Bykov, writer Bulls, journalist Bulls, lecturer Bulls and so on. One of the chapters is devoted to complexes which are peculiar to any person in a varying degree. Bykov admitted that his novels are an attempt to get rid of complexes, "to squeeze out them from itself". Investigating the biography, mentality and Bykov's psychology, the author tried to understand not only incentive motives of creativity, but also the reason of hobby of Bykov for policy.
This is a continuation of the novel "Lulu" devoted to the dashing nineties in Russia. Tahiti is a dream, a symbol of prosperity and wealth. Only the man of means is able to afford a trip to Tahiti. Hopes for implementation of this dream appeared at the beginning of the next decade. As a result the main character of the novel, it seems, received everything that wanted: it has a decent income, he became the popular writer and has success in beautiful women. But there are certain events, and it appeared that all not so. External gilding disappeared and the unattractive reality opened. In the most important, that makes a basis of happy and respectable life, modern times weren't better than the 90th at all.
This book is dedicated to the memory of famous Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov - March 10, 2015 marks the 75th anniversary of his death. The content is based in part on materials known to readers of the monograph "Dom Margarity." Some fragments of books "Writers and snitches" and "Phenomenon DB" was used. There are new photos, as well as materials related to Yershalaim chapters of the novel "The Master and Margarita." Of particular interest is the love story of Bulgakov and charming Princess Kira Kozlovsky. To some extent the book is dedicated to the centennial of their meeting in 1916. The story of the princess became the pretext for the study the fate of the Russian emigration of the first wave on the example of relatives and friends of princes Kozlovsky. In particular, a lot of pages in this book devoted to Klebnikovs and Soldatenkovs. Sources of information were the memorable books of Russian provinces from 1809 to 1917, address books of cities, literary works, memoirs of contemporaries Bulgakov, Russian immigrants, security officers and associates of Adolf Hitler, as well as articles in the American, French and Italian press, the archives of Pushkin House and the German Foreign Ministry.
Denunciations were very popular in the USSR. Some people sent messages to KGB, and literary critics wrote spiteful articles in which accused writers of crimes against the Soviet power. Isaak Babel, Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pilnyak and many other writers became the victims of false denunciations. Names of some snitchers were published only recently – the author told about it in the heads devoted to Andrey Sinyavsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and George Orwell. False charges of plagiarism were brought against Mikhail Bulgakov and Mikhail Sholokhov. In total about fifty famous writers and critics are mentioned in this book. The author was guided by exclusively good intentions – to justify unfairly accused or to find additional proofs for a sentence which was pronounced to the snitcher by the literary public.
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