Before you is the full version of Vasily Aksenov’s acclaimed novel “Mysterious Passion”. It is published for the first time in the form in which the author gave it to us. The heroes of “Mysterious Passion” are the idols of the sixties: Bulat Okudzhava, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Vladimir Vysotsky, Andrei Voznesensky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Joseph Brodsky and their opponents, irreconcilable enemies... Aksenov provided us with a unique opportunity to find out how these people lived how they resisted power, succumbed to it, loved, betrayed, beat off other people's wives, what they believed in, what they breathed. And all this is driven by a mysterious passion, which makes some great artists, and others - traitors and opportunists. According to the Federal Law of December 29, 2010 No. 436-FZ, V. A. Aksenov’s book “Mysterious Passion” belongs to the category of information products for children over the age of sixteen years old.