About the book: 2017 / The second of five books of memories of Moscow at the turn of the seventies and eighties is a truthful and valuable historical testimony based on the author’s excellent memory, on letters - documents Excursions into the even more past and into the future, that is, into today, give the story a unique volume and depth. Our past, so long ago and recent, is told vividly, talentedly, with a burning passion. The author recalls how we lived, what we thought, what books we read. Student life in the capital, far from the parental home, is shown truthfully, in detail, with love. Five books, and the reader is already facing the second, there is a worthy eulogy to fur cage farming - a lost branch of agriculture that no one needs today - and it was prestigious; this difficult work was needed by the state and was relatively well paid. Fate was pleased to appoint a fragile woman as the pillar of Soviet fur farming - Elena Dmitrievna Ilyina, Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor, and she coped with this task brilliantly. Let the whole country read today and remember what Elena Dmitrievna was like. Strong, humane, kind, intelligent, strong-willed, lively, strict, simple! Fair. “I undertook to describe that life, how we lived it then, and, of course, how we thought. Today I want to try to understand what we have lost as a whole country, where we took the wrong turn.” (From a letter). A book in the genre of memoir fiction - an attempt to overcome various stereotypes - will be of interest to absolutely everyone.