The book by the famous writer and translator Natalya Petrovna Konchalovskaya includes memoirs and short stories. In her works, she managed to preserve and preserve not only the image of the era, but also the nobility, culture and spiritual beauty of her contemporaries, people with whom she had the opportunity to meet and be friends: Edith Piaf, Marina Tsvetaeva, surgeon Vishnevsky, sculptor Konenkov... Behind the simple and ordinary events of everyday life in her stories there is a lot of wisdom, a deep understanding of life, the true values of human existence... The granddaughter of Vasily Surikov and the daughter of Pyotr Konchalovsky, she was able to find her unique path in life, literature, poetry and art.