About the book: 1990 / The prose of one of the oldest Leningrad writers, Alexei Liverovsky, carries a moral, cleansing charge. The reader will be attracted by stories about Sokolov-Mikitov and Bianchi, about academician Semenov, actor Cherkasov, geologist Urvantsev, with whom the author’s hunting passion and love for nature brought him closer.