V. F. Kormer is one of the brightest and most iconic figures of Moscow life in the 1960s and 1970s. A mathematician by education, he was a writer and philosopher by vocation. At a superficial glance, the “idle reveler” was internally focused on understanding what was happening. Due to these circumstances, the KGB did not ignore him. The novel “Inheritance” had no chance of being published in the Soviet Union, since it told about the life of the anti-Soviet intelligentsia. Therefore, it was only thanks to samizdat that the first readers became acquainted with this book. Then the novel was published in Paris (under the editorship of Yu. Kublanovsky), but the full author’s version was published in the magazine “October” in 1990.