About the book: 2019 / Mikhail Nikolaevich Zadornov was a mouthpiece who, without fear or reproach, without fear of censorship, said out loud what many were afraid to voice. Any of his books aroused keen interest. And it doesn’t matter whether it was funny or informative, any of them found its reader... Today on these pages we have collected stories from people who knew Mikhail Nikolaevich first-hand. Each of them had their own Zadornov. So, students, friends and colleagues on stage, comrades from childhood and even an old school teacher who remembers well her star student who died early tell stories…