Vladimir Aleinikov (b. 1946) is one of the main heroes of the Russian underground, a poet whose poems were not published in his homeland for a long time, but since the early sixties have been widely known in samizdat. Aleinikov’s prose is the prose of a poet, free, associative, rhythmic, with its own polyphony and movement of speech; these are original memories of a bygone era, of the author’s friends and associates. The book “Tadzimas” is a fascinating story about samizdat, the most serious phenomenon of Russian culture, about some people whose destinies were inextricably linked with it, about different events and times. The book by Vladimir Aleinikov will attract the attention of a wide range of readers.