Artikel-Nr.: 20191649
Hardcover, 288 pages
M.: AST, 2019
ISBN: 978-5-17-113240-8
Format: 70x90/16
V etoi knige istorik i kul'turolog Lev Berdnikov rasskazyvaet o fenomene russkogo shutovstva. Galereiu personazhei otkryvaet "Krovavyi Skomorokh" Ivan Groznyi, pervym dogadavshiisia ispol'zovat' smekh kak orudie dlia bor'by s neugodnymi i inakomysliashchimi. Osoboe vnimanie udeliaetsia XVIII veku — avtor znakomit chitatelia s istoriei sozdaniia Petrom I legendarnogo Vseshuteishego Sobora i tseloi pleiadoi ventsenosnykh paiatsev ot shuta Balakireva i Kvasnika-duraka do IAna Lakosty i korystoliubivogo Pedrillo, liubimtsa imperatritsy Anny Ioannovny. 
V knige takzhe predstavleny obrazy russkikh ostroslovov XVIII-XIX vekov, prichem v etom neozhidannom rakurse vystupaiut i kharizmaticheskie istoricheskie deiateli (Grigorii Potemkin, Aleksei Ermolov), a takzhe nashi otechestvennye Miunkhgauzeny, mastera rasskazyvat' udivitel'nye istorii. 
Otdel'nye glavy posviashcheny "shutam ot literatury" — tshcheslavnym i bezdarnym pisateliam, stavshim parodiinymi lichnostiami v russkoi kul'ture i ob"ektami nasmeshek u sobrat'ev po peru.