Alexey Koblov is a journalist, music critic, eyewitness and witness of the incredible, one of the apostles of the Russian counterculture. He collaborated with the publications "Zombie", "Urlight", "Counter Cult of Ur", Fuzz, Rolling Stone, "MK", ​​"AiF" and many others. He was involved in organizing concerts and festivals with the participation of many prominent representatives of Russian-language rock and roll, becoming not only an observer, but also a part of the history of the Russian Woodstock.

"It has long been necessary to collect together Yegor's direct speech, his numerous interviews, monologues, conversations with friends, letters and give the opportunity to see him speaking exclusively in his own words, without detailed reviews, meticulous analysis and critical reviews, perhaps with a few explanatory comments. In English-language practice, there is such a form - "... in his words", which, in fact, means: "in his own words". Well, in the case of Letov, this is doubly valuable - here is someone who really used the word as another weapon, a means of conveying to the world what he lived by, what occupied and worried him. In a sense, this is the only possible attempt to compensate for the never-completed books of dialogues and conversations with Yegor, which he was offered to make during his lifetime. In the collection, covering the period from 1986 to 1997, one can see both cult texts that influenced entire generations of readers and listeners, and programmatic statements, and sharp rhetoric, - everything that made up parts of a single whole or, as Yegor himself said, "a great multitude." There are little-known interviews, detailed concert monologues, letters, photographs, autographs and illustrations. All this is like a kaleidoscope with endless new combinations. The contradictory and at the same time amazingly integral personality of Yegor Letov continues to arouse unquenchable interest."

Author-compiler: Alexey Koblov.

Yegor Letov is a Soviet and Russian musician, one of the founders of Russian punk rock. The founder of the group "Civil Defense", an artist and a poet. The author of numerous hits, on which the generation of the 90s grew up. Thanks to the book "Shine" you will be able to take a new look at the life and thoughts of the famous rocker. Run through the main events of Letov's fate, get acquainted with previously unpublished materials of unreleased interviews and even personal diaries and notes of Yegor Letov.