About the book: 2017 / The story covers a hundred-year period of Russian history from 1917 to the present day. The writer’s father remembered her main milestones, remembered them in bright and delightful pictures, and Valery Popov retells them in his own, unique and recognizable style. Relying on documentary evidence, recalling the stages of his own personal and creative development, the author unfolds the canvas of life in a controversial era.