"A huge number of people inspired by the success of Dovlatov decided that they could also be so"
Sergey Dovlatov was supposed to be 65 years old. There are a great many readers, and, alas, more and more people who do not know anything about him. Dovlatov was captured by Leningrad, Tallinn, the camp north of stagnant years with filigree accuracy and humor. This era goes further. And Dovlatov is not enough to describe our time. The correspondent of the newspaper Tatyana Nevskaya talked with the writer and journalist Peter Vile, who knew Dovlatov closely.