The stories written by the artist Edward Kochergin is an astonishing narration about astonishing people ended up “in the gutter” in the 1940 – 1960 years. Children without parents, cracked people and cripples, beggars and prostitutes became the characters of the impressive life canvas portrayed by the “drawing person” pen.
The son of repressed parents, inmate of Children centers and special institutions of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, Edward S. Kochergin is a national Russian painter, State Premiums laureate, full member of Russian Academy of Arts. His stories is a memory about people pushed aside to the life verge with their worthiness and talents.