The sixties of the twentieth century are a special era in the history of Russian poetry, when it gathered crowded halls and stadiums, became a measure of truth and a textbook of life. A collection of biographical essays by the famous poet, writer, publicist Dmitry Bykov tells about the creative destinies of the leading poets of the generation of the sixties - not only the well-known Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, Akhmadulina, but also unexpected in this context Boris Slutsky and Joseph Brodsky.