Geniuses, categorical preachers of the ultimate truth... are men not without sin, who can err and profess false ideals? Leo Tolstoy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre, Lillian Gellman, Bertrand Russell, Bertolt Brecht, Norman Mailer - names engraved

in centuries. But did the private life of intellectuals correspond to their stated principles? How were wives and children, legitimate and illegitimate, treated? Did you value friendship? Were you perfect in everything? The answers will surprise you.

Pastors of humanity can turn out to be not only magnetic and controversial, but also extremely dangerous persons.