One of the most famous political jokes is “Winter has passed. Summer has come. Thanks to the party for this!” - belongs to Yuri Vlodov (1932–2009). But these lines do not give an idea of the true creativity of the poet and the scale of his talent. Yuri Vlodov is a poet-philosopher, a monumental, tragic poet of his era. “People and Gods” is his main book, where the characters are biblical characters. Vlodov managed to create such poetic paintings that, in their strength and picturesqueness, are on par with the works of the great masters of the past. According to A. I. Solzhenitsyn, “The power of this poet lies in the fact that he comes not from books, but from life itself, and therefore, despite timeless themes, he is always modern.”