Na stranniye, neobyasnimiye fakti w twortchestwe mnogih pisatelei natikalsa yedwa li ne kaghdy knigolub, imeushy w swoyem bagaghe hota bi dughinu protchitannih romanow. Aleksandr Righow postawil pered soboi cel sobrat, obobshit i sistematisirowat wse podobniye strannosti, iswestniye w literature. Naprimer, slutchai s Borisom Pasternakom. Sobiraa Marinu Cwetayewu w ewakuaciu, poet perewasal yeye tchemodan werewkoi i mimohodom sametil, tchto-de eta werewka wse widerghit, hot weshaisa na nei. yemu wposledstwii peredawali, tchto Cwetayewa powesilas imenno na etoi werewke… A wot wospominania Uria Nikulina o Wasilii Shukshine: kak-to, sida w grimerke, Shukshin pri pomoshi bulawki i banotchki s krasnim grimom tchto risowal na patchke sigaret. Artist Georgy Burkow sidewshy radom, sprosil: Hto risuyesh. Pustaki, - otwetil Shukshin. - Gori, nebo, doghd… W obshem, pohoroni. Na sleduushy den Shukshina ne stalo - yego nashli mertwim w kaute teplohoda. Mnogiye fakti, sobranniye w etoi knige, woobshe ne poddautsa obyasneniu.