The story.
Anastasia had asked Vladimir to write a book about his experiences with her. She promised him the nine books he would write would become the most significant works in Russian literature, would reform the world and would make him world famous. However improbable was this prospect, Vladimir Megre, reduced to bitter poverty, started writing. People were helping him on his way and less than a year later his first book - Anastasia - was ready. No publisher would take it, but director of one of Moscow's printing businesses published 2,000 copies at his own expense and handed them over to Vladimir for distribution. So it was in 1996 that Vladimir Megre found himself standing by a metro station in downtown Moscow with books in his hands, trying to sell them to passers by.
What followed was as miraculous as his experiences in taiga with Anastasia: the first 2,000 copies were sold out in a matter of days (and one copy of this first printing even made it to the U.S. Library of Congress stacks). New printings of 2,000, then 10,000, then 10,000 more copies were made, but all were sold out in a matter of months. Then, millions more were printed and sold. By 1999 Vladimir Megre was Russia's most read author. His eight books published to date (May 2006) sold over 10 million copies in Russian alone. This impressive figure does not include electronic copies of the books (full texts of all eight books in Russian are available for a free download off the Internet.
Translations in 20 languages followed and are a tremendous success in Germany and several East European countries...
Please check some annotiation in English here -
http://www.spaceoflove.com/books/books_ru.htm ).