Moscow in May

The main events of the novel take place over three days in May 1969, but while adhering to this chronological framework, the writer makes its boundaries extremely permeable, telling how he moved from Kharkov to Moscow with Anna Rubinstein, how he tried to fit in a rather heterogeneous poetic community, searched for housing and means of existence, earning a living by sewing bags and trousers. Before the reader unfolds Moscow at the end of the thaw, bohemian and creative. Among the characters in this book are Arseny Tarkovsky, Ernst Neizvestny, Ilya Kabakov, Leonid Gubanov, and other participants of the legendary SMOG, Igor Kholin, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Anatoly Brusilovsky, Heinrich Sapgir, and many others.