About the book: year / The two-volume book of the Russian poet Stanislav Kunyaev covers more than sixty years of today's Russian history. On its pages, readers will meet many famous people of the era, with whom The author of “Memories and Reflections” lived his life. Among them are poets Nikolai Rubtsov, Boris Slutsky, Anatoly Peredreev, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Alexander Mezhirov, composer Georgy Sviridov, historian and critic Vadim Kozhinov, prose writers Viktor Astafiev, Valentin Rasputin, Vasily Belov and others... But “Poetry. Fate. Russia" is a book not only and not so much about the "elite", but about the secrets of Russian fate with its heroic ups and tragic downs. The book is richly saturated with letters, diaries, photographs, published for the first time from the author's personal archive.