"Mysterious Passion" is the latest novel by Vasily Aksenov. His heroes are the idols of the sixties: Robert Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Vysotsky. Andrei Voznesensky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Evgeniy Yevtushenko... Aksenov provided us with a unique opportunity to find out how these people lived - they resisted power or succumbed to it, they loved, betrayed, beat off other people’s wives, what they believed in, what they breathed. And they continued to create, no matter what. It is this thirst for creativity, which cannot be killed by any regime, that Aksenov calls a mysterious passion.