About the book: 2002 / Sergei Nikolaevich Esin is a famous writer, playwright and publicist. His stories and novels: “Imitator”, “Memoirs of a forty-year-old”, “R-78”, “Types”, “Gladiator”, “We only live twice”, “Running in the opposite direction” are widely known to readers. His Diaries cover the last three years of the XX century. Here is the life of the country, the life of the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky, of which he is the rector, the life of the author himself and many people around him. The diaries published in “thick” magazines were in demand by readers as greedily as the writer’s prose.