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Brodsky believed that Igor Efimov "continues the great tradition of Russian writers-philosophers, leading its origin from Herzen". And now, having published a dozen novels and half a dozen books on philosophy, Efimov wrote his own version of "Past and thoughts".
From the first volume of his memoirs - "In the Old World" - the reader learns that his life in Russia was held under the slogan "don't trust, don't fear, don't ask" before this slogan was coined by Solzhenitsyn. During his school years he did not believe the newspaper and radiopropagation - only Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy. And was not afraid to stand up for a colleague who is facing execution. And for the persecuted poet, a future Nobel laureate. Not afraid to circulate banned literature and printed abroad in those years, when it gave up to seven years in the camps... Efimov was lucky - he had to survive until the return of his books in Russia.