After the release of the book “Calendar. Talking about the main thing” Dmitry Bykov was repeatedly asked the question: why are there not many high-profile dates and names in it? The author’s answer is simple: “Of course, I didn’t fit everything into this book. But I hope the number one on the cover means something to you!” That is, wait for the continuation. And so - we have waited for him. “Calendar-2” is a book on the pages of which we again meet heroes and events, united solely by the will of the author. Decadents and dissidents, the “Serapion brothers” and the Strugatsky brothers, Jack London and Vladimir Nabokov, Conan Doyle and General Kornilov, “those who came in large numbers” and “those not allowed to travel abroad”, Agatha Christie and Dzhambul Dzhabayev... And at the same time, this is all about what is happening in the country here and now, that is, TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANT.