Alexander Kabakov (1943–2020) - writer, journalist, playwright; master of psychological prose and intellectual thriller; author of the novel “Everything Can Be Corrected” (Big Book Award), the book of memoirs “Aksenov” (co-authored with E. Popov), the ironic “Moscow Tales” and many other works. The legendary dystopia “Defector” immediately after its release in 1988 brought the author gained worldwide fame and turned out to be a gloomy prophecy of the events of 1991. The phantasmagoria “The Condemned” is a logical continuation of “The Defector”, only the action moves to the middle of the 21st century. The novel “The Fugitive” is an elegant stylization of an old diary. Banker L-ov anticipates the catastrophe of the early twentieth century and is preparing to become a defector.