What would have happened to the legendary founder and leader of the group “Kino,” Viktor Tsoi, if on 15.08.1990 he had not died in a car accident near Riga? Alexander Dolgov offers his version of events in the novella “Tsoi. Black Square.”
Weaving real facts from the life of the St. Petersburg rock scene into the text of the novella, numerous quotes from the film “Needle,” details related to Kino’s last concert at Luzhniki, the appearance of the first squatters in the Neva city, the birth of DJing, and much more, the author masterfully recreates the atmosphere of the early 1990s—making the reader completely forget where the line between reality and fiction lies.