About the book: 1970 / In this book, the author shares memories of his meetings with outstanding people, with famous artists, artists. Against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary and post-October Moscow , either in short episodes or in extensive memoirs, A. V. Lunacharsky, G. V. Chicherin, V. A. Avanesov, V. V. Mayakovsky, A. K. Glazunov, F. I. Shalyapin, K. S Stanislavsky, Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, E. V. Geltser, A. V. Nezhdanova, A. D. Vyaltseva, N. V. Plevitskaya, Lina Cavalieri, A. N. Vertinsky, Max Linder and others. Ilya Schneider is famous reader as the author of another book of memoirs - “Meetings with Yesenin”, published by the publishing house “Soviet Russia” in 1966.