This book is the second part of a two-volume series dedicated to Russian literature of the twentieth century. Each chapter is a page of history through the eyes of writers and poets who witnessed the main events of the era in which they lived and created. The second volume includes lectures on the works of such outstanding personalities as Pikul, Bulgakov, Shalamov, Iskander, Aitmatov, Yevtushenko and others. Dmitry Bykov seems to take us back to the year in which this or that book was created. The book was created based on the popular program “One Hundred Lectures with Dmitry Bykov.”