For several years, the Orpheus radio channel aired the original program of journalist, writer and presenter Irina Semyonovna Klenskaya, “Good tone. Walks through the Hermitage" - about great treasures and the people who protect them, and, of course, included conversations with the director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky about life, meaning, art, history and memory. One day a daring idea came up to turn a radio program into a book. Mikhail Borisovich thought and said: “Why not? Let's take a risk! " And here is this book in front of you.