Flying Over Oneself

Evgeny Tabachnikov is an acupuncture physician, but his book of memoirs is not about medicine. These are vivid, engaging stories about people who were legends of the Soviet era—and at the same time were close and dear to the narrator. First and foremost is the author’s father, Modest Tabachnikov, the creator of beloved songs in our country: “Let’s Have a Smoke,” “Odessa Mishka,” and many others. On the pages of the book, you’ll meet the famous football player Andrey Starostin, the popular playwright Isidor Shtok, the gypsy actresses—the Cononov sisters—and “the muse of the Russian avant-garde” Liliya Brik… Besides stories about the “last of the Mohicans” who made the fame of the past century, E. Tabachnikov tells about twists and turns of his own life and unusual people fate brought him together with. And the book will be presented to readers by well-known journalists V. Pozner and A. Bukalov.