Living at the same time with people like Bykov is already interesting.
But we are lucky that he is not only a poet and writer, winner of the Big Book and National Bestseller awards, but also a great lecturer.

Poet, writer, journalist, lecturer, film critic, screenwriter, biographer of Boris Pasternak and Bulat Okudzhava, winner of many literary awards, teacher of Russian language and literature at school.

Dmitry Bykov is the author of dozens of books, collections of poems and articles.

Lecture topic: Does Russian literature have a future?

What genres and directions will be especially significant after the fall of the regime? Will the exclusive role of Russian culture in the life of the nation continue - and will this role not only be nominal, as it is now, will living literature influence the authorities and the population? Why will the Russians be given the next Nobel? And is it necessary to read Russian at all?