About the book: 2014 / Recognized master of travel texts Vasily Golovanov (b. 1960) once again offers the reader a “journey with an open heart” in space and time , in the labyrinths of history and the human spirit. Through the patina of time appear images of passionaries who never cease to attract the attention of people seeking a breakthrough to freedom, creativity and independence: the great commander of antiquity Alexander the Great and the poet Velimir Khlebnikov, the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin and the French - Armand Gatti, our contemporary Mikhail Tarkovsky and the genius Andrei Platonov with his almost biblical characters. Golovanov does not want to come to terms with the “Iron Age”, which is increasingly closing in on any manifestations of freedom of spirit. In different times and countries, Golovanov searches for people who left their Messages to the world. These messages, like the texts of Golovanov himself, are ready to be revealed to anyone who wants to break out of the boundaries of a convenient, comfortable, thoughtless existence. And the author himself is filled with such determination, setting off with like-minded friends on a fantastic expedition - to the ruins of Chevengur