It is HARD TO BELIEVE that the best, standard example of Russian fiction — "The Doomed City" by the Strugatsky brothers — was conceived in the late 60s, and completed in 1972, it is too amazing, impossible for those times, the degree of inner freedom of this novel. They didn't even write that way "on the table"... IT seemed incredible. However, the whole incredible, almost detective story of the fate of the "Doomed City", presented in the "Comments" to the novel, makes you believe that it was EXACTLY LIKE THAT. And it only makes reading a novel more interesting!