CONTENTS BLOCKS ON OLD blotters From student to midshipman, “Captain, smile”, From lieutenant to senior lieutenant, Our universities, Scream the silence with lights, Unlucky aunt of an unlucky nephew, More about the unification, Happy old age, A little bit about Vera Fedorovna Panova, “THE WORLD IS NOT A SMALL WORLD, BUT A LAYER IS THIN?” (From the letters of L.L. Kerber), The fate of the family, About Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov, From the last letters of L.L. Kerber, PARIS WITHOUT A HOLIDAY (V.P. Nekrasov), Death in someone else’s apartment, Letters received after the publication of “Paris” without a holiday", "EVERYONE HAD THEIR OWN SAVIOR" (About the "Siege Book" by A. Adamovich and D. Granin), From the correspondence of V. Konetsky with A. Adamovich. IN MEMORY OF VIKTOR KUROCHKIN WHAT DO YOU LOOK AT THE CLOUDS? (A. I. Solzhenitsyn) CAPTAINS Captain Georgy Kononovich, Just two meetings, Captain Georgy Yaffe, He is the captain of this poem (S. A. Kolbasyev), Captain Yuri Klimenchenko, Oceanic Russia. FROM THE LOOKING GLASS From Verochka Adueva, “I will be a lunar streak at sea ...”, Perestroika, or Fire in a mess during a flood, The life of a poet is a complete feat. AGAIN THE TITLE IS NOT INVENTED (Yu. P. Kazakov). I’ll start from the end, with the last letter, Kazakov and I are approaching thirty, Passed thirty, How literary quarrels between writers, Eleven years have passed, From diary entries on the ship "Severoles", Epilogue. CUCUMBER OUT OF THE WAY (A. T. Averchenko) HERE WE WILL DO WITHOUT TITLES (V. B. Shklovsky) From letters of O. B. Eikhenbaum and E. DalBARYSHNYA AND THE SLOBBY (B. Akhmadulina and G. Khalatov) Meetings of different years Sloppy Grant PLEASANT TO REMEMBER (R. Orlova, L. Kopelev, D. Steinbeck, E. Caldwell) For half an hour without a tail (W. Saroyan) The arch-happy writer (A. Haley) HAS COME IT'S TIME FOR SUCH NOTES TWO AUTUMNS