This book is full of unknown aphorisms, caustic witticisms and bitter jokes of the great actress, but in addition you will see here a completely different, unusual Faina Ranevskaya - without the eternal “clown” mask, without retouching, without makeup. Only one person in the world knew her like this - her own sister. Separated in her youth (after the revolution, Faina remained in Russia, and Bella and her parents went abroad), the sisters met only 40 years later, when the lonely widowed Isabella Feldman decided to return to her homeland . And Ranevskaya had to use all her considerable connections (including the all-powerful Furtseva) so that her “white emigrant” sister would be allowed to stay in the USSR. Faina Georgievna not only registered Bella in her two-room apartment, but also devotedly took care of her until her death. It cannot be said that the sisters lived “harmoniously,” they were too different, and besides, Bella was a “Parisian”, absolutely incompatible with Soviet reality sometimes infuriated Ranevskaya wildly, but her sister was the only truly close, dear person for Faina Georgievna. Only with Bella could she shed her usual mask and be herself...