today my guest is kirill shamanov, writer , art historian, artist, we will talk about the birch epicello cyril, hello. this 60-year-old guy from an educated and fairly wealthy family studied at harvard, studied medicine in europe, and then chose this path. uh, let's just say to sink to the bottom and go through, in general , addiction to illegal drugs, and he describes this experience in his books and quite unexpectedly becomes classics american literature is one of the leaders of the beatnik movement, among which is the galun gitsberg jack carroak, and in general, what can we say to both rosa whether he became a pioneer, but because we know that irwin welsh, er. from transporting hunter thompson to las vegas, all they can say has been following in his footsteps. well, for american literature, probably, yes, but we also know there is russian literature, english literature, and in russian literature we know bulgakov's morphs of uh english literature. it's novel de quincey. uh, another 1,000 1,800. there are some tenth years, that is, yes, if we say, like this chronologically, as it we