About the book: 2009 / The theme of this book is the perception of Yukio Mishima’s aesthetics in Russia, the implementation of Mishima’s ideas in the works of Eduard Limonov and some of his followers. Speaking about the creative similarities of the two writers, the author highlights such important and common elements in their prose as the aesthetics of youth, a beautiful body, the theme of a hero, war, and revolutionary uprising. The biographies of Mishima and Limonov note both external echoes - a passion for Westernism at the beginning of life, latent homosexuality, the scandalous image of an “inconvenient writer” in their native country, popularity abroad, passion for nationalism and an attempt at a revolutionary uprising, and internal ones - the motive of life creativity, the desire to create oneself your biography and create it primarily in accordance with the ideals of your aesthetic system. The book is intended for readers interested in general problems of culture.