The poetry of Boris Ryzhy (1974–2001) burst into literature at the end of the 20th century with an unexpected outbreak of brilliant talent. The young man from the Urals amazed connoisseurs of fine literature with the freshness of his words, the musicality of his verse, his rare skill, and the combination of a rich internal culture with the natural language of the environment on whose behalf his muse spoke—the Yekaterinburg outskirts. He brought a new hero, a young man from the ever-memorable 1990s, “where we are alive, in a blue album, earthly trash: bandits and poets.” After the early, too early departure of Boris Ryzhy, he was immediately given two labels: “the last Soviet poet” and “the first poet of the generation.” Is it so? Ilya Falikov, a famous poet who at one time took part in the fate of the hero of the book, does not strive for a detached narrative about the life and death of the poet - like many characters in the biography, he enters into a dialogue with Boris Ryzhy and offers his own view of this poetic phenomenon at the turn of the millennium. A fusion of travel notes, historical excursions, personal memories, critical reviews, conversations with the poet’s family and friends, the breadth of citations, the diversity of people involved in the fast-moving life of Boris the Red - all this makes up the content of the book and is unlikely to leave a reader sensitive to poetry indifferent. sign information products 16+