About the book: 1987 / The book is dedicated to the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Leonidovich Slonimsky (1897 - 1972), who was at the origins of Soviet literature and devoted his entire life to it your long life. In his memoirs, he talks about meetings and conversations with talented writers of that era: The initial years. Maxim Gorky Senior and Junior Lev Lunts Alexander Green real and fantastic “Olga Forsh lives and works here...” “Palms don’t grow in Siberia...”. Vsevolod Ivanov Boris Pilnyak It was in the House of Arts. Nikolay Nikitin Mikhail Zoshchenko Together and close. Evgeny Shvarts Kamarada David Vygodsky Creative trip. 1932, July-August Writer-border guard. Lev Kantorovich In the wild wind. Petr Pavlenko Korney Chukovsky Nikolay Chukovsky Literary notes