Dmitry Bykov - prose writer, poet, famous publicist, believes that with the 20th century, a millennium of conversations and understanding of “damned issues” ended, and all the achievements, disasters and confrontations of previous centuries became history - more dead than alive. And yet, people never tire of talking and arguing about Peter and Paul, the Decembrists and the “catastrophe of 1917”, about Stalin and liberalism, Dostoevsky and “Dostoevshchina”, Law and Grace... All this is a PERSONAL PAST, from which there is no escape. In his new book “CALENDAR”, Dmitry Bykov chose the “Danish form” to remember names and events that will remain with us forever, even if today’s schoolchild does not immediately understand what we are talking about.