The writer Natalya Staroselskaya dedicated her new book to the biography of a man about whom we can safely say that the essence of the country was expressed in his personality. He had so many titles, awards and regalia that it is difficult to list them. The nationwide love for him is evidenced by the fact that parents named their sons in his honor, the planet and the Arctic supertanker were named after him, and the day after his death, the Zenit football team went to the match with mourning armbands. This book tells about the fate of a great artist and a great man - Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov.