Rakov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (10/31/53, Perm), historian, cultural scientist, poet. Specialist in the Western European Renaissance, author of the monograph "European Miracle" (Perm, 1999). Associate Professor at the Department of History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages at PSU, Associate Professor at the Perm Branch of the Higher School of Economics. Author of poetic publications in the magazines "Uralskaya Nov", "Ural", "Arion", "Province" (Daugavpils), participant in the "Anthology of Contemporary Ural Poetry" (Chelyabinsk, 1996, 2003). Inf.: "Marginalized". - Chelyabinsk: Gallery Foundation, 2004. Autobiography Born in 1953 in Perm. I live here all the time, excluding three years of studying in Moscow. My childhood was successful, I only regret one thing: there was no good library and all that time I scrounged from the meager public reading rooms. The smell emanating from the bookshelves of Pushkin is still in my nostrils. Normal student youth. Faculty of History of the University. Dead autumn of the Soviet-Jurassic-Permian period. Komsomol meetings. All is well. Five years of school without the right to correspondence. In Gorkovka they reluctantly gave me the pre-October collected works of Nietzsche. Through my grandmother, I got a Bible in Church Slavonic from pious old women. There is no external biography. Work at the university. The beginning of an internal biography. Meeting people who were kind to me. Thank you.December 2004Main literary publications:Golden Game: Poems. - Perm: Perm University Publishing House, 1996. 56 p. (Series "Signal copy of the Yuryatin Foundation"). Design by A. Amirkhanov. Number π: a book of poems. Afterword by the author. - Perm, 2006. - 88 p. Design by Yu .Chernyshova