In her book “The Continuation of the Soul,” Vera Vasilyeva turns to an unknown friend who you can trust with your thoughts and your feelings. Assessing the path traveled today, she has something to thank fate for. The roles that I managed to play, the artists and directors with whom I had the good fortune to work - and among them Andrei Mironov, Anatoly Papanov, Georgy Menglet, Olga Aroseva, Nina Arkhipova, Alexander Shirvindt, Ivan Pyryev, Erast Garin, Boris Ravenskikh, Valentin Pluchek and others, as well as the love of the audience, “it’s all a miracle.” And she generously shares this miracle with readers so that they too believe: “while a person is alive, fate can send him everything, let only the soul be alive, so that he can accept both joy and grief with dignity and live his life with all the fullness of feelings, and she beautiful..."