Lyudmila Stern is known to Russian readers for her books of memoirs about Brodsky and Dovlatov, with whom she had many years of friendship. In this new memoir book, Lyudmila Stern consistently talks about her entire life, starting from post-war Leningrad and ending with forty years in the New World after emigrating from the USSR. Here she again returns in memory to Joseph Brodsky, Sergei Dovlatov, Mikhail Kazakov, Tatyana Yakovleva, Mikhail Baryshnikov and many other famous people and simply curious personalities, talking about them with great warmth, subtle irony and constant gratitude for the meeting. Lyudmila Stern talks about her life in a 4-part documentary film of the same name, shown on the Culture channel. The book contains the full text of her memories.