About the book: 2014 / Tatyana Virta is a translator, author of the book "Born from Peredelkino", daughter of the famous Soviet writer Nikolai Virta. Her memories are an invaluable source of information about “how they lived, how they loved, how they believed” people of the Soviet era. An amazing love story, full of difficult trials and yet leading to happiness - this is the story of Rachel's mother-in-law. The tragedy experienced in early youth and left its mark on the rest of his life is the fate of Nikolai Virta’s father. And also stories about friendship with interesting famous people; society of the sixties - lyricists and physicists: Elena Rzhevskaya and Isaac Kramov, Boris Kagan and Zoya Boguslavskaya, Yakov Smorodinsky, Academician Ginzburg and many others... The history of a country is best understood through the stories of its people.