Thirty years have passed since Andrei Tarkovsky passed away, and passions around his name and work still do not subside. He died at 54, having experienced a tragedy of the soul: Tarkovsky could not live in Russia and could not live without it. Each film of his creative heritage is still a mystery, a mystery of time and space that remains to be unraveled by descendants - “Ivan’s Childhood”, “Andrei Rublev”, “Solaris”, “Mirror”, “Stalker”, “Nostalgia”, “Sacrifice” “In this book, people who knew him closely recall what an outstanding master of cinema of the 20th century was like. Among them are the poet Andrei Voznesensky, cameraman Vadim Yusov, film director Mikhail Romm, actor and director Nikolai Burlyaev, composer Eduard Artemyev, actor Yuri Nazarov, actresses Alla Demidova, Valentina Malyavina and others.