Arkady Korovin was Lev's childhood friend. They grew together before Lev moved to another area of Bobruisk. After graduated Arkady moved to another Soviet republic. They have used to meet frequently - and Lev used to tell Arkady about what happened to him since any previous Arkady's visit. The biography was written on Lev GININ's request as an introduction to first self-published collection of Lev's works. However, because of clear reasons it was never used for that purpose.

Korovin's biography of Lev GUNIN is criticizing and "negative". He claims that Lev GUNIN could not live without strong emotions, risk and dangerous adventures. According to his suggestions, Lev's games with KGB were a sort of entertainment, or gambling, to which Lev became addicted. He's blaming Lev in destroying his own life, and - indirectly - in playing a role in his brother's death, in ruining all his close relatives' lives and in other tragedies. Arkady thinks that Lev GUNIN provoked persecutions and therefore was responsible for them. He also claims that even when Lev was already practically persecuted by Soviet authorities, he had power to stop them by showing indifference and stopping to respond to his "enemies'" actions. Instead, Lev continued to play his dangerous games and did not attend to Arkady's advises. Lev - as Arkady claims - also needed to train his brain by these dangerous games.

Arkady suggests that behind Lev's actions also stood some even more egoistic, selfish stimulus. As a talented person he needed recognition of his abilities and achievements in literature and music, and it forced him to be ambitious. But he was afraid to hear devastating (negative) words about his creativity and avoided direct approach in literary and music circles. However, to compensate his need to be important and powerful he has chosen to play with KGB and other Soviet authorities.

Arkady claims that Lev went so far that it could take away his life. He intervened behind the scene in top political matters of the Soviet state, stalking top political figures, spreading rumors and desinformation among political elite. Lev accumulated secret military, liaison, espionage and political information, and used it to accelerate the end of the Soviet Russian empire. He has collected information about top political officials, KGB staff, secret telephone codes and passwords, etc.

In his ordinary life - according to Korovin - Lev also balanced on the verge of violation of criminal laws - if not violated them. In search for new information he used to meet Mafia's Godfathers, dissent KGB and military functionaries, as a "pimp" used "foreign currency prostitutes" to extort information from KGB members with whom they slept. Having no driving license, Lev used to travel with one of his girlfriends, driving her father's car, chased from road police (GAI), and had sexual relations with teenagers under 16. Claiming that he never has any affair without love, Lev, according to Arkady, is not sincere because Lev had too many lovers and too often - to believe in what he claimed. Arkady disputes also another Lev GUNIN's claim: that "KGB is guilty" in Lev's "tragedies in love". Arkady describes most of Lev's love affairs - and concludes: that such gorgeous, rare, beautiful, and smart women simply could not stay long with such a person as Lev GUNIN was.

[(By the way - in his unpublished work another Lev's biographer, Alexey K. wrote that he once discussed Lev's troubles in personal life with Ury ZELDIN, Vitaly and Lev GUNINS' friend. Ury - a medical doctor - suggested that Lev is a combination of a rare sexual type, which needs sex from 3-4 to 6-7 times a day, - and a special psychological type, who can not be sure, what a message gives him an opposite sex. Because of inability to understand, what this or that sigh or glance means: a green light to seduction - or not, he was forced to rely on women, and w a s chosen by them rather then to choose. Because he probably had a complex about his steady sexual desire, he just let the women to take him by hand - and was taken directly to sex. In the future it was throwing a grimy shadow on this relationship. However, if Lev could interpret his women just as sexual partners, not as brides, he could peacefully separate them - or stay with them. But for that his marital status had to be changed. K. has suggested that such a type is well described in belletristic; they are mostly married men with wide extra-marital relations, whose initiators are women. Therefore Lev's tactics had to be a waiting tactics: when he did some signs to preferred women, but waited until they should start to shorten the distance themselves. Probably that kind of uncertancy dominated him when he called himself "Lev", "Laib" (in Yiddish), "Leon" (Polish) or "Leo". Maybe this also was an attempt to escape a bad karma. )]

All others Lev GUNIN's biographers contradict Arkady Korovin's attitude. They claim that Arkady had personal reasons to describe Lev GUNIN as a gambler and not a victim of the Soviet system. They show that in all his conclusions Arkady was wrong. But Korovin's biography of Lev GUNIN is the only literary, poetical Lev's biography, the only one, which was written by somebody, who was an amateur writer himself - and was the first collectionner of GUNIN's works.

Оля Шадурко, родственница Льва Гунина Ola SHADURKO, Lev's relative