While still in manuscript, this book was included in the shortlist for the 2007 Big Book Award. “The Man with the Egg” is the first Russian biography, not inferior to the best British ones, and England is the undisputed leader in texts of this genre, analogues. One hundred percent hit in the choice of the hero, A. A. Prokhanov, through whose biography one can consider the cultural history of the country of the last five decades, the painstaking and diligent collection of facts, each of which is presented as a jewel, a balanced system of the bibliographical narration itself and personal digressions - all this makes the debut Lev Danilkin in large form is a notable literary phenomenon.