The first full volume biography of one of the founders of the national classical music, the largest reformist Russian musical theater of the second half of the eighteenth century. Mysterious and tragic life Evstigney Fomin received a diploma Bologna Philharmonic Academy and remained until his death in unclaimed Russian first considered in detail, thoughtfully. The book contains rare archival documents, and in those cases where they put forward no valid version of the life and destiny of the great Russian composer. The author reveals the essence of the events took place then - through music, literature, theater. Catherine II and Paul I, Ivan and Nikolai Betskoy and Nikolay Sheremet'ev, Padre Martini and the abbot Mattei, Peter Skokov and Leopold Mozart, Gabriel Derzhavin Jacob Knyazhnin, actor Dmitrevsky and executioner Sheshkovsky, filed with authority, visibly. The originality of style, clear documentation of prose and artistic interpretation of the documents represent a new step in the development of certain beloved by readers of the genre of historical - biographical novel. Boris T. Evseev was born November 10, 1951 in Kherson in a family of intellectuals. Received his musical education (Kherson School of Music, . ), and in 1995 he graduated from the higher literature courses at Litinstitute them. Gorky. From 1974 to 1990, not been published. Repeated attempts to do so led to disastrous results: manuscript received the highest scores of famous writers and critics, wrapped ago, and if it came to the set, he crumbled. Since 1990 the poetry and prose Evseeva are published annually in 3-4 thick journals, such as for example: Novy Mir, Druzhba Narodov, the Volga, in the Literaturnaya Gazeta, and many other publications.