Vera Leshchenko - a popular Soviet singer, the wife of the legendary singer Pyotr Leshchenko, tells the difficult story of his ascent to the musical Olympus, his relationships with great contemporaries - Fyodor Chaliapin, Oscar Strok, Alexander Vertinsky. Recalls life in German-occupied Odessa and Romania after the entry of Soviet troops there. About the machinations of the Romanian and Soviet GB services, his arrest and serving time in the camp, and also reveals the secret of the death of Pyotr Konstantinovich Leshchenko in prison dungeons. This book, like a mirror, reflects the fate of Russia during the troubled times of the twentieth century.