Not so a long ago the name and phenomenon of the Russian андеграундного writer Yakov ЕСЕПКИНА appeared in heading of literary news. A cult author is known to the bibliophiles from times of the USSR, officially the creator of "Космополиса of archaic character", finding secret status of the last great Russian-language book, began to be published abroad. Meantime after the exit of самиздатовских collections "Gothic in an underground" and the "Classics" of young genius enthusiastically soviet провластная art establishment welcomed. Work of "night mystic singer" is so paradoxical, how and legendarily, it was always associated with the эмблемной symbolics of intellectual literature. Есепкин reformed a modern thesaurus, changed the flow of home literature, his deliberately archaic vocabulary charms the staggering vividness. Master of solemn syllable entered in world literature genre determination "gothic poetry". Today he is included in the circle of elite literati applying on the receipt of the Nobel prize.