Evgeny Водолазкин is a prose writer, philologist. Author of the best seller "Лавр and elegant historical fiction "Соловьев and Ларионов. In Russia he is named "Russian Умберто Эко, in America - after the exit of "Лавра in English - by "Russian of Маркесом. He is enough to be by a soba. Works of Водолазкина are translated into many foreign languages.A hero of new novel is "Airman - a man is able tabula rasa: awakening once on a hospital bunk, he understands that does not know about itself exactly nothing - neither the name nor who he such nor where is. In a hope to recover history of the life, he begins to write down visiting him remembrances fragmentary and chaotic : Petersburg of beginning of ХХ of century, suburban childhood in Сиверской and to Alushta, gymnasium and first love, revolution of 1917th, amorousness in an aviation, Solovkis. But from where he remembers the details of way of life, phrase, smells so exactly, sounds that to time, if on a calendar - 1999 year?.