About the book: 2012 / This book is the first serious attempt to understand the phenomenon of long-term Russian leader Vladimir Putin through the language of art, through texts and meanings produced as in Russia of the nineties and zeros, both created earlier, but anticipating the contexts of Putin’s time. The author - journalist, prose writer and literary critic Alexey Kolobrodov - analyzes cinema, television, show business and the musical underground, but mostly modern Russian literature, stating in author's disclaimer: the book was born precisely at the intersection of literature and politics.A. Kolobrodov uses Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Nosov, Vasily Aksenov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alexander Prokhanov, Viktor Pelevin, Dmitry Bykov, Zakhar Prilepin, Yulia Latynina and other authors as experts. The research, although not without some provocativeness and arbitrariness of the author, nevertheless explains a lot for the serious reader about time, the nature of power, the mechanism of social movements and the energy of delusions.