Pered vami polnaia versiia nashumevshego romana Vasiliia Aksenova "Tainstvennaia strast". On vpervye publikuetsia v tom vide, v kakom ego peredal nam avtor. Geroi "Tainstvennoi strasti" - kumiry shestidesiatykh: Bulat Okudzhava, Robert Rozhdestvenskii, Bella Akhmadulina, Vladimir Vysotckii, Andrei Voznesenskii, Andrei Tarkovskii, Evgenii Evtushenko, Iosif Brodskii i ikh opponenty, neprimirimye vragi... Aksenov predostavil nam unikalnuiu vozmozhnost uznat, kak zhili eti liudi, kak soprotivlialis vlasti, poddavalis ei, liubili, predavali, otbivali chuzhikh zhen, vo chto verili, chem dyshali. I dvizhet vsem etim tainstvennaia strast, kotoraia delaet odnikh velikimi khudozhnikami, a drugikh - predateliami i prisposoblentcami.