The most popular writer of the sixties and disgraced of the seventies, an emigrant, a returnee, the author of novels awarded prestigious literary prizes in the nineties, a prose writer who was constantly looking for new forms, a friend of his friends and a loving son... Vasily Aksenov wrote letters to friends and family with that same literary brilliance and absolute inner freedom, like his prose. The correspondence, extracted from the American archive and now stored in the “House of Russian Abroad,” covers the period from the late forties to the early nineties. Here is a dialogue with his mother - Evgenia Ginzburg, and letters to friends - Bella Akhmadulina and Boris Messerer, Bulat Okudzhava and Fazil Iskander, Anatoly Gladilin, Joseph Brodsky, Evgeny Popov, Mikhail Roshchin... The book is illustrated with rare photographs.