Nothing has ended yet ... Itor in Shklovsky - a great philologist, a master of formalism, a person who has opened a new era in humanitarian science - lived 91 years. He went through the civil war, fled from the Bolsheviks to Germany, was forgiven by the Soviet regime, returned to the USSR, survived the Stalinist times without a single arrest, received orders and a state prize. “He was bald, unrestrained and ambitious.