War, revolution, exile, return, split, unrest, riot and again (this time voluntary) exile: the text of the biography of Yuri Lyubimov is read by the semi -legendary epic of a Shakespearean scale and the intensity of passions. In his creative fate there was nothing personal, private-only general, universal: it is symbolic that the death of the Lyubimov Taganka in the summer of 2011 led an alarming dashed line under the whole story of the phenomenon of the Russian repertoire theater.