Friends and colleagues of Sergei Nikonenko hoped that one day he would write down what his memory had very carefully preserved, which was important both as a biography and as a chronicle of epochal events, and most importantly, as an observation of the development of personality, as the experience of becoming an actor. The resulting book is interesting, wise, and funny; and where suffering and sadness are remembered, there is also faith that LOVE will change everything for the better. A book is like a journey, and it begins in the very house where Yesenin once lived, in the very apartment where Vasily Shukshin, Nikita Mikhalkov, and Nikita Mikhalkov visited more than once, and... “Wait, who’s coming?!” Seryozha was dumbfounded - he could not understand where the voice was coming from. Finally he noticed me and we started laughing. He came up to my “glass holder”, where we finished the “conchalovka”, and then went to him on Sivtsev Vrazhek, to his stunning communal apartment, inhabited by unforgettable characters, among whom I lived from that moment on for exactly six months.” Nikita Mikhalkov, People's Artist of the RSFSR (quoted from the book of memoirs “Territory of My Love”)