Sasha Chernyy. Pechal'nyy rycar' smeha

Sasha Chernyy, znamenityy satiricheskiy poet, po odnim ocenkam - "beznadezhnyy pessimist", po drugim - "detskaya dusha". Kakim byl etot chelovek, sozdavshiy yazvitel'nuyu kartinu svoey epohi i vdrug razvernuvshiysya k protivopolozhnym zhanram? Chto zastavlyalo ego brosat'sya ot satiry - k lirike, ot revolyucionnyh manifestov - k religioznomu missionerstvu, ot yadovityh politicheskih pamfletov - k stiham dlya detey? Po kakim prichinam on ushel iz procvetayuschego zhurnala "Satirikon"? Otchego storonilsya lyudey, hotya v krug ego obscheniya vhodili Kuprin, Averchenko, Gor'kiy, Chukovskiy, Marshak? Pochemu vsyu zhizn' iskal "vershinu goluyu"? Kak vyshlo, chto on proshel vsyu Pervuyu mirovuyu voynu, a v reshayuschie dni 1917-go okazalsya v Pskove, epicentre perelomnyh dlya derzhavy sobytiy?.. Viktoriya Milenko, kandidat filologicheskih nauk, predstavlyaet na sud chitateley pervuyu popytku polnogo zhizneopisaniya poeta, gde oboznacheny i tvorcheskie, i geograficheskie vehi ego puti: Odessa, Belaya Cerkov', Zhitomir, Peterburg, Geydel'berg, Pskov, Vil'nyus, Berlin, Rim, Parizh i nakonec Provans - zhelannaya im "vershina golaya". Seriya: Zhizn' zamechatel'nyh lyudey.