About the book: 2016 / An amazing, but real story of events took place in the life of a military orchestra. Musicians, as you know, are a special people. Military musicians first and foremost. And what music they play, what marches I play! What a joke! How they laugh! How they fall in love This is exactly how it all happened in one ordinary military band. American Gail McKinley, lieutenant and conductor, appeared in the orchestra unexpectedly and with almost no particular interest in Russian march music, in the performers, but... She heard Russian marches, fell unconditionally in love with the music and performance, and, without even knowing it, fell in love with one of the musicians - ensign, but, most importantly, she saw the compositional talent of pianist Sanka Smirnov, a conscript musician. In the orchestra, the pianist plays cymbals, he also happens to know English, and he is modest, and a talented pianist, and... Even the US Ambassador to Moscow, Mr. Collins, admired all this. Sanka Smirnov turned out to be a real national treasure of the country. Nobody suspected this. All of Europe heard and confirmed this. True, for this, the orchestra musicians had to fly to the city of Stockholm, to Sweden, to perform Sankin’s Cantata at the final royal concert. Zhenya Timofeev, the first trumpet in the orchestra, talked to Gail there, and Sanka Smirnov, a national treasure, met Kat. And how many interesting and unusual things there were for them with this trip... And this is among other things…