About the book: 2022 / This book is a true, exciting story about what the Soviet elite of the Brezhnev era was like. Her life is shown from the inside with the utmost frankness of a person independent in judgment and actions. The painful memories of childhood in the Urals are replaced by impressions of Moscow in the 1960s and studying at a prestigious institute. With rich strokes, the author paints the outstanding figures of the era with whom she had the opportunity to meet and communicate: Georgy Zhukov and Mikhail Sholokhov, Ekaterina Furtseva and Pavel Luspekayev, Yuri Gagarin and, of course, Leonid Brezhnev himself. The bright gallery of images is shaded by a gloomy picture of intrigue in the shadow of the Kremlin walls. Andropov’s web, which entangled the secretary general’s inner circle, also reached his niece. The usual KGB arsenal was used against her: surveillance, demonstrative searches, “conversations” with assault. Unable to tolerate humiliation of human dignity, Lyubov Brezhneva breaks out of the suffocating world around the Kremlin to build a life and family without any regard for kinship. The further story of Lyubov Brezhneva is the joys and hardships that she met together with her friends: writers, architects, artists... A bright and honest picture of the decline of the Soviet era will not leave indifferent both those who saw it and those who want to learn about it through living human destinies. The book contains obscene language