Connoisseurs of cinema Nikolai Boldyrev are known as the author of two biographical books about the great director: “Stalker, or The Works and Days of Andrei Tarkovsky” (Chelyabinsk, 2002) and “The Sacrifice of Andrei Tarkovsky” (M., 2004). The new book brings a kind of essayistic conclusion to the attempt to penetrate into the metaphysical essence of the intuitive quest of the Russian poet of cinema.