The novel “Hostage of Eternity” tells of the tragic fate of Leningrad artist Vasily Kaluzhnin—friend of Yesenin, Akhmatova, and Klyuev…
“Without Semyon Borisovich, this artist would have disappeared. All his works were lying around in the Mukhin school somewhere between doors, and no one knew where to put them: they even wanted to throw them out…”