German writer from the GDR Christa Wolf, winner of many literary awards, including the German Book Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize, is known to Russian readers for her novels “Reflections on Christa T.”, “Medea”, “Cassandra”, etc. She She came to the USSR ten times, both with official delegations and just to visit friends. This book is her impressions of Moscow, Kyiv, Leningrad, Riga, reflections on social and political life, on the fate of the Russian and German people, on literature and the life of people in our country. Christa Wolf talks about her fellow writers and translators - Efim Etkind, Lev Kopelev, Konstantin Simonov, Vera Inber, Albert Karelsky and many others whom she had the opportunity to meet. “And I also firmly decided: I will learn Russian,” she wrote after her first visit to Moscow.