“There is such an ancient, I would even say, Sicilian genre of shepherd poetry - bucolics, bucolica. I decided to play with this name and came up with my own kind of autobiographical story, which can be called “bucolica.” It is from such “little books” that this book was born. Some of them contain several lines, others spread over many pages, including stories from friends who knew the author closely. And together they form a story about Bukalov and the people he knew, about the time in which he lived, about the events in which this amazing man was a participant and witness. The story would be incomplete without video evidence; the book contains more than 30 rare photographs from the personal archives of the author and his friends, as well as those obtained from TASS and the Vatican.