Outstanding Russian actor Georgy Burkov left behind a great literary legacy, including a wealth of notebooks and pads filled with his quick, illegible handwriting, in which secret thoughts and intimate desires alternated with drafts of theatrical scripts and literary essays. Burkov prepared himself his whole life for a major literary work, but aside from interviews and newspaper articles, he published nothing. He wrote for himself.
The actor’s widow, Tatyana Ukharova, not only gave permission to publish her husband’s “secret” work, but also greatly contributed to the creation of this book.
Now, everyone who loves and remembers Georgy Burkov has a unique opportunity to learn: what he was like. Here is a life full of suffering, searching, mistakes, and revelations. A life of the mind and a life of the soul. A real life.