About the book: 2014 / This book is the first attempt to lift the veil of secrecy over the vivid biography of one of the most significant journalists of our time, the unusual fate of the legendary interviewer , the famous "Ogonykovsky", the flagship of the "perestroika" press, the author and host of the TV shows "The Green Lamp" and "Paris Dialogues", a gambler, a famous bibliophile and a tireless collector. His creative collection includes meetings with such iconic people as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kurt Vonnegut, Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Voznesensky, Joseph Brodsky, Ilya Glazunov, Anna Bukharina-Larina, Eduard Limonov, Dzhuna Davitashvili, Francoise Sagan, Henri Troyat, Arthur Miller ... His personal archive contains hundreds of unique autographs, photographs, and documents. His journalistic memory includes many discoveries and mysteries of the 20th century..