Do not compare the hero of the story “The King in New York” with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Kosygin, whom Nekrasov has never seen - only in films and television reports. His story is not about Kosygin, he is a fictional figure, but about our ruling elite, living in courtly passions and intrigues, in an unattainable distance from genuine, real life. The story “The King in New York” is directed not only against Soviet morals and norms. Take a look through the eyes of its author at our current “thin-necked” and rosy-cheeked uniformed and ununiformed leaders, for whom freedom and truth, humanity and democracy are worthless words, words, words...

L. Lazarev