About the book: 1971 / The collection includes stories about meetings with people of art and literature - A. V. Lunacharsky, Vs. Vishnevsky, K. S. Stanislavsky, K. G. Paustovsky, Le Corbusier and others. In stories with postscripts, the author recalls a variety of life stories. In one of them, we meet a business American who arrived in post-revolutionary Kyiv; in the other, after a twenty-year separation, together with the author, we meet one of the heroes of his famous story “In the Trenches of Stalingrad.” With a confidential intonation, sometimes imbued with gentle humor, the author writes about people who really lived and are living, famous and not famous, and about himself.