For the first time, an attempt has been made to describe the life of the famous conductor, who has headed the great Mariinsky Theater for more than thirty years, in a coherent and detailed way. His irrepressible energy, maximalism and unpredictability are well known, as well as his obsession with ambitious plans and large-scale creative projects. Valery Gergiev is a vivid example of how a person endowed with the talent to give birth to non-standard ideas, focusing on the desire to realize them, achieves his goal. But the book is not a list of Maestro's high-profile successes. It is about the difficult paths that he chooses, about the efforts that it costs him. About how, despite the circumstances that hinder his creative intentions, through breakdowns and learning from mistakes, meeting misunderstanding and a critical attitude to his ideas, the artist goes without looking back to the intended goal, overcoming hidden, and sometimes explicit hostile opposition, etc. .. most often wins - that's what this book is about.

The book is in Russian.