By the time the events described in this book began, its author had already been working for more than three years, or rather since March 1963, as an employee of the international Secretariat of the United Nations in New York. Over the years, in this capacity, he managed to travel a lot not only around the United States, but also to visit a number of countries in Europe and Latin America. Who has the fate of a diplomat faced? Che Guevara and Suslov, Yuri Nagibin and Henry Kissinger, Andrei Mironov and Kosygin, Nelson Mandela and Alexander Galich... As if in a kaleidoscope, cities and countries, politicians and poets, tycoons and actors replaced each other. And against this background, “big politics” took place, which, it turns out, is also no stranger to oddities and surprises.