Kapitolina Koksheneva is not just a critic, but a researcher, and not just a researcher, but a search engine. The basis of her creative method is not a dispassionate analysis of what is happening in art, but an interested search for what will help a person find a life-giving connection with the historical destinies of his country. The search for forces that will ultimately remove the sarcophagus from Russian culture, which is being carefully pulled over it by the adherents of corpse modernity and “universal values.” The new book by Kapitolina Koksheneva explores modern prose, cinema, theater, painting and gives answers to the most burning questions of current cultural life.