The latest book by the formerly famous journalist and writer Vladimir Ionov is written in the genre of memoirs. But the author calls it an autobiographical novel, justifying this by the breadth of coverage of the described events in the life of the country and the hero of the story. The book is populated by a large number of well-known characters with whom the author had the opportunity to meet in his half-century work as a journalist and writer; they gave characteristics that often differed from the generally accepted ones.