About the book: 2005 / The book includes the memoirs of People's Artist of the USSR Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya. In them she talks about her amazing fate: how a provincial girl from a quiet town managed to achieve world fame. “I told a little about myself, my comrades in the creative workshop, my successes, doubts and difficulties... I don’t know how to turn my soul inside out, but I don’t want to embellish my life either: the way it turned out, that’s the way it turned out...” The book uses photographs from the author’s personal archive