About the book: 2005 / Who was the first in our time to pick up a guitar and sing poetry instead of reading them? Lev Anninsky's book is dedicated to the “founding fathers” of the genre. Among them: Alexander Vertinsky, Yuri Vizbor, Alexander Gorodnitsky, Novella Matveeva, Vladimir Vysotsky, Yuliy Kim, Bulat Okudzhava... The author had personal relationships with some of them, which he does not hide.