Mikhail Gundarin will present the biography of the writer Evgeny Popov. Mikhail Gundarin's book tells about Evgeny Popov as a person whose biography resembles a chain of unpredictable routes. A teenager from Krasnoyarsk, a graduate of the geological exploration institute, an informal writer, a participant in the legendary almanac "Metropol", president and vice-president of the Russian PEN Center - all these roles come together to form a portrait of an author who found himself at the epicenter of literary events in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. The book will be of interest not only to fans of Popov's prose. His fate is connected with a wide range of names, including Vasily Aksyonov, Fazil Iskander, Vasily Shukshin, Bella Akhmadulina, Vladimir Vysotsky, Andrei Voznesensky, Alexander Kabakov, Yuri Dombrovsky, Semyon Lipkin, and many others. The book contains over 500 pages, rare archival photographs, and a detailed index with hundreds of surnames. It is a kind of informal history of Russian literature, filled with funny, sad, and very human episodes. The author of the biography is prose writer, poet, and literary critic Mikhail Gundarin, a junior companion and co-author of Popov. The meeting will be attended by the heroes of the book, friends, and colleagues of the writer. Evgeny Popov himself will share stories that remained behind the scenes. After the meeting, visitors will be able to view the exhibition "War and the Sacred: Prayer, Sacrifice, Name" for free. Find other events in Moscow on KudaGo.