Gennady Krasukhin's new memoirs are written as a commentary on one poem. What kind of poem this is and why its lines determined the structure of the book, the reader will find out on the first pages. And how long work in the Literary Gazette and in other publications, acquaintance with famous writers, memories and reflections on yesterday’s and today’s life are intertwined with the motives of the poem, the author of which is old enough to be the grandson of the author of the book, is revealed in each of its chapters. The diary basis of the memoirs demanded complete the story of what was happening as it had developed by December 9, 2006, when the book ended.