About the book: 2015 / Alexander Nilin is a prose writer and memoirist, author of books about the legends of big-time sports. “Peredelkino Station: Over the Fences” is an unusual memoir about the life of writers and poets, separated by personal fate and degree of fame, but united by the “unity of place and time” - the dacha village of writers, where the author has lived since the day of his birth. With an intonation that is both ironic and sympathetic, A. Nilin talks about his neighbors in the “writer’s town,” including Boris Pasternak, Alexander Fadeev and Angelina Stepanova, Valentina Serova and Konstantin Simonov, the Chukovskys, the Kataevs, the family of the author of “Brest Fortress” Sergei Smirnov, Yuri Olesha...Relying exclusively on his own memory, in the “novel of private life” the author combines the child’s first impressions with observations and reflections of subsequent years.