About the book: 2000 / Marina Tsvetaeva - “first of all and always a poet, so she remains a poet in every line of her prose.” And especially autobiographical: aphoristic, expressive, musical. Her characteristics are distinguished by amazing accuracy, sincerity and depth, she manages to show the weak and strong sides of her heroes, to capture them in moments of joy, pain, confusion. From the pages of the book emerge living portraits of her father, professor at Moscow University, founder of the Museum of Fine Arts I.V. Tsvetaeva; poets V. Bryusov, K. Balmont, 0. Mandelstam, M. Voloshin, M. Kuzmin, A. Bely; young Vakhtangov students S. Golliday, P. Antokolsky, Yu. Zavadsky, as well as Marina Ivanovna herself - an unusually gifted person, but at the same time tragically lonely, carrying a charge of doom in herself from her youth.