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SUBSCRIBE TO OUR TELEGRAM CHANNEL https://t.me/portreti_proshlogo Shukshin was known as a bright Russian nationalist. Let me emphasize right away that this does not mean that he was a Nazi or a racist - he simply sincerely loved Russian culture and people, which in itself is not a vice. Unlike Shukshin, Vysotsky was an opponent of Russian nationalism, so there could be no real friendship between them. They were connected exclusively by creative interests, friendly relations and joint feasts. Valery Zolotukhin noted: “I thought about Shukshin, Vysotsky and myself. Shukshin ended up in Vysotsky's circle of friends, which surprises me. In 16 years of work and communication, I never saw them together and did not hear that they met. (…) By the end of his life, Volodya surrounded himself with friends: Shukshin, Tarkovsky, Todorovsky…”