Petr Aleksandrovich Kiele is a rather strange and controversial figure in the literary life of Russia in the last third of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century. Born in 1936, he entered literature in the late 60s as an unnoticed poet, and in 1970 as a critically acclaimed prose writer. In Soviet times, he published several author's collections of short prose. We have before us a fairly typical option for modern literature, when an author who is not published in difficult times (so readers of his previous works enter the date of his death into search queries) “no longer writes” in fact In fact, he works very intensively and fruitfully, but all his activities take place in the virtual space.