Yevtushenko was expelled from school with a hopeless characteristic - a “wolf passport”. He was expelled for something he didn't do. With the same “wolf passport” he was excluded from all “parties”: “...I do not belong to any party, nor to any mafia, nor to our show-off beau monde...” However, the “wolf passport” did not prevent the boy from Zima station from turning into into a world-famous poet, becoming the voice of an entire era. This book is an autobiography written at the end of the century. Its author is disconcertingly truthful. In relation to himself and in relation to close and not so close people with whom fate encountered him, throwing him to different corners of the globe. Among these people - artists, musicians, poets and writers, directors, politicians, revolutionaries - are the names of those who will forever remain in the history of the twentieth century: Dmitry Shostakovich, Boris Pasternak, Joseph Brodsky, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Paolo Pasolini, Che Guevara...