"In actual fact all looks otherwise, what actually". With this phrase of Stanislav Ежи Леца the book of Yuriy Никулина is begun "Almost in earnest". It hardly is an ironical recital of itself and serious about other: native and near, famous and not popular, but incredibly interesting people of circus and cinema. A book is full humour. There is not a lie in her. Own life and life are not embellished in general in her.Open this book, and you will feel, as though Yuriy Vladimirovich sits next to you and tells the history exactly to you.