Istreblenie persiyan

V ostroumnyh, tonkih, blestyaschih besedah pisatelya Tat'yany Tolstoy i kinokritika, esseista, kul'tovoy figury andegraunda Aleksandra Timofeevskogo legko i estestvenno sovershayutsya perehody ot Sten'ki Razina - k Buninu, a ot Pushkina i Chehova - k zastol'nym pesnyam, v nih vospominaniya o surovom byte devyanostyh perepletayutsya s rasskazom o bunte strel'cov 1682 goda i begstve Petra I v Troicu v 1689-m, zdes' soshlis' Vostok i Zapad, Eros i Tanatos, eda i telesnost', a Esenin i Vysockiy sosedstvuyut s Prigovym i "Dau" Hrzhanovskogo... V knigu takzhe voshli teksty druzey i blizkih Timofeevskogo: Tat'yana Moskvina, Sergey Nikolaevich, Lev Lur'e, Yuriy Saprykin, Ivan Davydov, Aleksey Zimin, Ol'ga Tobreluts, Dmitriy Ol'shanskiy, Andrey Plahov, Dmitriy Vodennikov, Elena Posvyatovskaya, Elena Veselaya i mnogie drugie vspomnili o tom, "kakim byl Shura".