In this story, the reading public, of course, will immediately recognize the great poet with his difficult fate. There are no specific names here, but this whole story of the Guardian of the Language and his muse has long become an eternal theme in journalistic investigations and literary legends. And now a new version of this legend is actually unfolding before us. The identity of Joseph Brodsky is recognized here from the very first pages. Analogies are drawn with Akutagawa’s story “In the Thicket,” which was so successfully transformed in cinema into the magnificent film “Rassemon” by Kurosawa. But still, this whole story is a kind of hymn to the glory of the Great and mighty Russian language.