Mikhail Nikolaevich Zadornov was a mouthpiece who, without fear or reproach, without fear of censorship, said out loud what many were afraid to voice. Any of his books aroused keen interest. And it doesn’t matter whether it was funny or informative, any of them found their reader... Today on these pages we have collected stories from people who knew Mikhail Nikolaevich first-hand. Each of them had their own Zadornov. So, here are the stories from students, friends and stage colleagues, childhood comrades and even an old school teacher who remembers well her star student who passed away early...