About the book: 2017 / The stage life of artists is closely intertwined with the backstage. Here everything happens eye to eye, feelings are pulled together and sparkle under high voltage. Famous directors - Yuri Lyubimov, Galina Volchek, Andrey Zhitinkin - share the secrets of their professional and personal lives, artists change gender (Oleg Tabakov, Marina Neelova, Igor Vernik), play love (Liya Akhedzhakova, Alexander Domogarov, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Aronova), die for real or for fun (Andrei Mironov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Alla Balter), tell theater stories and jokes. Marina Raikina - a famous theater historian, TV presenter, her person behind the scenes, will tell us about all this and reveal those secrets that would be so interesting know.