Wonderful Russian actor Georgy Ivanovich Burkov left behind a large literary legacy, including a mass of notebooks and little pads filled with quick, hard-to-read handwriting, in which secret thoughts and intimate desires intermingled with rough drafts of theatrical scripts and literary essays. All his life Burkov prepared for big literary work, but besides 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 largely contributed to the appearance of this book.
Now everyone who loves and remembers Georgy Burkov has a unique opportunity to find out what he was like. In front of you is a life full of suffering, searching, mistakes, and insights. A life of the mind and a life of the soul. A real life.