"My father was poor oilman".Whether you know, that Фаина Georgievna hated this "winged phrase", doing her famous, and pejoratively spoke of the cinemaroles: "again клоунесса, but not Васса Железнова"!, being afraid to remain in memory of audience just the source of verbal "malapropisms" and anecdotes? Whether you know, that, besides the rank of folk artiste, orders of Lenin and Labour Red Banner, the USSR, she got yet and three Stalin bonuses, though did speak of rewards as oh ? Do you know, that under the mask of "Мули", eternal пересмешницы and матершинницы, the creative tragedy of genius actress so not learning to value the comic gift hid?.This book is not memoirs, not collection of well-known jokes and "хохм" - from these pages voice sounds quite another, real, tragic Раневской, whose caustic sharpnesses always were LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS.