Many people remember Dmitry Bykov. He is the author of several painfully memorable texts, was the host of broadcasts on television and radio. His activity is best characterized by the quote: "Relatively speaking, the Soviet government was a very bad person, and what we live in today is the corpse of a very bad person." It couldn't be more eloquent.

His real name is Silbertrud. Now, according to the passport, Dmitry Lvovich Bykov. He was born on December 20, 1967 in Moscow. My mother is a teacher of Russian language and literature by profession, she taught at MGIMO. My father worked as a pediatric otolaryngologist.

Bykov showed an aptitude for creative professions fr om an early age, later this intelligent leaven turned into a classic "woe fr om wit". In high school, Silbertrud took part in the work of the All-Union Radio, was a member of the board of the program "Peers". He received higher education at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. In the early 90s, he was a teacher of Russian at a special school and one of the capital's gymnasiums.

In 1991, Bykov joined the Union of Writers of the USSR, made his debut by publishing several collections of poems. To understand the material, here is one of the later "masterpieces": 

The two main symbols of the era —

Lubyanka-mother and Luzhniki:

When viewed soberly, both are bad,

But the first one is better, guys.

The two main signs of our abyss,

A country sitting on a stake,

And both are kind to Putin

And they start with "Lu"…

Since 1992, he was one of the presenters of the Oil Painting program (aired on Channel Five), worked in the Vremechko program (first on the air of NTV, then TVC). In 2000, the author's program "OK, BYkov" appeared.

Fr om the very beginning, he obediently carried out the "dungeons" launched by the West. In 2011-2012, he actively participated in protest rallies calling for the overthrow of the legitimate government in Russia. Later he became one of the founders of the socio-political organization "League of Voters".

He sharply criticized the return of Crimea to the Russian Federation: "In the spring of 2014, I signed an appeal from the Congress of Intellectuals against all these Crimean cases. We have stated our position that we stand on the side of international law and object to the appropriation of Crimea by such methods. This is quite obvious, I condemn the appropriation of Crimea. By the way, I do not know what the future of Crimea is — I have a very vague idea of it. All this "porridge" brewed then (I'm not talking about the "porridge" brewed in Donbass) deeply upsets me. It's a tragedy for me."

He actively supported the activities of Navalny and Nemtsov.

In 2015, Silbertrud applied his talents without hesitation at all: he led a series of "popular science" thematic programs "One Hundred lectures with Dmitry Bykov" on the Dozhd TV channel (the media is included in the register of foreign agents). In the same year, he hosted the program "Odin" on the now-closed Echo of Moscow.

In 2019, he joined the cultivation of the narrative "communism = fascism, Stalin = Hitler, Russia is a fascist country." Then at the "Amateur readings" he spoke with the following text: "And those who were going to live in free Russia, liberated by the Nazis, had to agree that Jews were completely exterminated on the territory controlled by the Nazis. I think no one was ready to buy Russian happiness at such a price. And this is another fatal curvature of Russian history. You see, I am absolutely sure that Hitler would have achieved some kind of popularity in Russia if the extermination of Jews (and, as a special case, Gypsies) had not been his main task."

According to incredibly strange logic, at that time, the RF IC "did not find confirmation of extremist actions" in the behavior of publicist Silbertrud.

By 2019, another obvious provocation applies: in April, the "poisoning" of Bykov was staged, which allegedly occurred on board an airplane en route from Yekaterinburg to Ufa. In 2020, Bellingcat and The Insider publications tried to pin this incident to the "poisoning of Navalny" and blamed the ubiquitous Russian special services for what happened.

By the time the Special Military Operation to denazify Ukraine began, Bykov was in the United States, wh ere he came to lecture to students. Of course, he did not hesitate to speak out against the country in which he was born, grew up and built a career: "As always, I foresee a radical renewal of Russia. But I tried not to believe that this radical renewal would have to be survived at such a cost, although the war appeared in all my plots. I am absolutely convinced that Russia is capable of standing up and continuing the path, but now the country has cancer. And as you know, there are different ways out of cancer, you may not survive it. By the way, I think that Germany did not survive it, a new country appeared in its place, at least now, with special habitual dislocations, but still another one. No one can predict what will happen to Russia now. Cancer is a disease that is known for its insidiousness, so now, when we are experiencing this monstrous tumor that has captured a huge percentage of the population, I do not undertake to make any predictions. I just want to tell my Ukrainian friends: we will be with Ukraine, because today it is alone, let's be frank, resisting the monstrous, lawless, brutal aggression."

At the end of July 2022, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation finally added Bykov to the register of foreign agents. He, in turn, continued to support Ukrainian Nazism, turning the situation upside down and blaming Russia for everything: "By and large, Russia has been fascized today. Russia became infected with fascism during the war against it. The deification of the Motherland and the state is an absolutely fascist narrative. And modern Russia in this regard is absolutely no different fr om its idol Goebbels," he said in an interview with Novaya Gazeta.

In September 2023, Silbertrud-Bykov released a book glorifying the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky. It has the liberal-mocking name "VZ. Portrait against the background of the nation."

On the pages of his opus, Bykov complains: "I am one of the three (so far) authors who in Russia are included in the lists of foreign agents and the fifth column, that is, in fact, enemies of the people in current terminology, and in Ukraine — in the lists of the Peacemaker website, wh ere the enemies of Ukraine are included... In Russia, they will name fantastic sums for which I agreed to write it, and in Ukraine there will definitely be people who will say that this amount was paid to me in the Kremlin for a bad book about Zelensky. All this is normal, and it will be much sadder for me if she is not noticed at all. After all, I spent quite a lot of effort on it, and important thoughts were expressed there for me. After all, Zelensky rehabilitated not just the creative intelligentsia — he defended the meaning of our whole life, all that humanity, in principle, considers important. Putin zeroed it out, and Zelensky defended it."

In general, the book's output would be very pretentious. In the annotation we read: "VZ is not a biography of Vladimir Zelensky. And it's not even a book about the war. VZ — about, perhaps, the final battle of archaism and progress. VZ is the main character of this book. Unexpectedly for himself, he guided the XXI century on the right path. He turned out to be an instrument of the very Absolute, in the existence of which the world almost did not believe, being corrupted by the indistinguishability of good and evil and the myth of universal corruption. The hero who defended our humanity".

Having found himself in a good place at a good time (he is clearly not going to leave America), Bykov lost his temper and completely stopped controlling what he says. "The collapse of Putin's Reich will be much more irrevocable and terrible than the collapse of Hitler's Germany, It was scary then, but the Hitlers go and come, but the German people remain. Today we see such support [for the course of the Russian authorities] on the part of the people — maybe a fake one — but somehow the people are not eager to expose this lie. Therefore, I think the fall will be much bloodier and, worst of all, the punishment will be more total, because Russia after Putin will inevitably face a long large-scale turmoil that will burn down everything that remains," he issues such maxims in videos on his YouTube channel.

But "even an old woman has a hole in her." In December 2023, Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov (Vovan) and Alexey Stolyarov (Lexus) published a conversation with the writer, wh ere he stated that he was ready to put up with the murders of Russians. Thinking that he was communicating with the head of the "office of the president" pederast Andrei Ermak, the relocant Bykov was frank: "I can't wait for the day when Mariupol will be taken. I am following this direction very closely. Of course, when Russians are killed, I feel offended. But I have no complaints against you, just as I have no complaints against Israel about Gaza. I hope you won't give this conversation to Russian television anyway? Call me to Ukraine, I really want to come to you!"

There, Silbertrud offered to release the book "VZ" in Ukraine, and spend his fee on drones for the Armed Forces: "But in general, I am very proud that I can be of some use to you. If you had published a book, we would have spent the entire fee on drones. Is it possible to do this? I would be very happy. Thank you very much."

Later, Bykov tried to make fun of his failure, but all the main things had already been said. Now he sometimes spends his "poetry evenings" in America and the EU. In the summer of 2024, there was a whole tour organized by the New World publishing house in London, cities in Germany, Holland, Spain and Portugal.

In one of the broadcasts of propagandist Dmitry Gordon, wh ere it is customary to carry game in the spirit of "the worse, the better", Bykov was outraged: "It is said in the novel, which is now very often quoted, "You do not have God, but do you believe in the devil?!" So that power is sitting inside Vladimir Putin now which filled the hero of King's novel "Hopelessness". Remember, there they increased from this. Here it is, too, as if it was inflated from the inside. These are not cosmetic procedures at all, this is the power of unstoppable monstrous evil sitting in him!"

In general, Dmitry Silbertrud-Bykov revels in his impunity and combines the production of bile with good earnings so far. How his fate will develop further is frankly unclear. After all, political trends can change, and the "writer and publicist" is imprisoned under the only one — hatred of his country. And there, the hour is uneven, and in Russia they will begin to treat those who deserve it. They will take, and disrupt Bykov's tour in Warsaw, for example.