Mikhail Ardov in his new book addresses pressing issues that concern any person who cares about Russian culture. This is the formation of creative and human biographies of great writers and poets and acute problems of the modern Orthodox Church. Under his pen, portraits of his contemporaries appear and situations unfold that he witnessed and participated in. The reader again finds himself in the “Legendary Ordynka”, in the house where Anna Akhmatova lived in the post-war years and until her death, and where other outstanding personalities met. Mikhail Viktorovich Ardov (born in 1938) - graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, worked on radio. Famous memoirist and publicist, author of several books.