From the preface to the collection “Hurricane Fomich” “...What the author saw is striking in its accuracy and piercingness. The gallery of female portraits, as they say, “blows the mind.” Those horrors (and forbidden joys) of our life, which many have only heard about, are presented to us in this book. And the portrait of the hero himself is drawn with a frankness unprecedented in our literature: a city playboy, looking for adventure, but finding touching pictures of real life that exists, ends up at the bottom.” Valery Popov, Chairman of the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg