When he disappeared, as suddenly as he appeared, his contemporaries began to compose for posterity their impressions of the Streltsy principle, rightly believing in the uniqueness of the phenomenon that occurred during their time. And I can not escape from the exaggerations in the biography, in which I still intend to ground the legend of Streltsov… And what is written about him will hardly contradict reality. He once said to me, " You're imagining things when you write, aren't you? So I was fantasizing on the field." (Alexander Nilin)