Masters of artistic expression - this definition is entirely belongs to Mihailu Kozakovu - actor, director and writer. He - Master, who created a galaxy of images: Shakespeare - from Hamlet to Lear, and diametrically opposed - Dzerzhinsky and Faust, Don Juan and uncle Adueva. Master - to put the cult film The Pokrovsky Gates and the finest drama Masquerade . Master - wrote achingly ironic and candid book about time and about himself - Drawings in the sand and third call . Fate gave him happiness collaboration with brilliant contemporaries - Olegom Efremovym and Anatoliem Efrosom, friendship with Davidom Samoylovym and Okudzhava, Arseniem Tarkovskim and Olegom Dalem, Pavlom Luspekaevym and Evgeny Evstigneev. In general, I consider myself first and foremost an actor, the second - the director, the third - a reader and then I - scribbler , - says Mikhail Kozakov.- However, it may happen that after many years everyone will forget about my role and my performances, and the book is just left to the people who will be interested in the theatrical process in the days when I lived on earth.