“In reality, everything looks different than it really is.” Yuri Nikulin’s book “Almost Seriously...” begins with this phrase by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. This is a slightly ironic story about himself and a serious one about others: relatives and friends, famous and non-famous , but incredibly interesting personalities of circus and cinema. The book is full of humor. There is no untruth in it. It does not embellish your own life and life in general. Open this book and you will feel as if Yuri Vladimirovich is sitting next to you and telling the story of his life to you.