About the author
Motorcycle traveler, writer, documentary filmmaker
Entrepreneur, biker, traveler, writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and candidate of economic sciences. A native of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Author of novels, travel prose, and documentaries about motorcycle expeditions around the world — from Sakhalin and Tibet to Scotland and the Caspian. "A journey begins with the first step."
Not a travelogue and not field notes. The book fuses autofiction, expedition documentary, and philosophical prose. The lighthouses become living characters; memory flares in personal recollection, where the myth of the Blue Bear sounds beside the voice of Bronisław Piłsudski and the living voices of the crew.
The history of tobacco, told through the tangled relationship of Albrecht Dürer and Christopher Columbus, is woven into a detective plot set in Nicaragua, 2024, during the thirteenth wave of the pandemic — as a nightmarish past catches up with the Spanish cigar seller Luis Sánchez.
Amid the intricate nuances of the modern world unfolds a story where authenticity and artifice subtly intertwine, leading us through an endless carnival of reinterpretation. Names, places, and escapades play their whimsical roles, enchanting us like jesters in the grand play of life.
A novel based on Maxim Privezentsev's travel notes from his 2017 motorcycle journey around the Caspian Sea. One of its storylines draws on the famous 1933 Moscow–Kara-Kum–Moscow automobile rally, in particular the diaries of its participant Boris Semevsky.
The story reveals the key events of Lermontov's life that lead him to his fatal end. An important outcome of the journey was Thomas Beavitt's English translation of Lermontov's poem "11 June 1831" — the same translator who had earlier rendered the poet's "A Wish."
Sakhalin Island is where the author was born. Three stories about how a country "bruised by its own vastness," in Nikolai Berdyaev's apt phrase, treats its "serf" citizens.
The story of the 2019 expedition retracing the route of Russian traveler Gombojab Tsybikov into early-20th-century Tibet. How Tibet has changed over 120 years — and how its perception by others has shifted.
In the summer of 2022 the author — a passionate motorcyclist — rode from European Paris to Siberian Tobolsk. An inspiring story of resolve and a fascination with the unknown: a reflection on the meaninglessness of war for an ordinary person and on the power of science and technology.
Distant roads beckon many, but few dare a circumnavigation. Maxim Privezentsev fulfilled a long-held dream and crossed five continents — through savannas and deserts, four-thousand-meter passes and the rough outskirts of Latin American cities, the favelas of Rio and the beaches of Cape Town, along the Great Wall of China and legendary Route 66.
A book about the founding, rise, and bankruptcy of the Mirax company — a retrospective of twenty years of events in which the author took direct part.
A collection of poems and short stories from the travels of Maxim Privezentsev.