The new edition of the book by the famous film journalist, Teffi Award winner Gleb Skorokhodov includes unique materials: recordings of his conversations with Faina Ranevskaya, pages of her letters and diaries. The author tried to capture the extraordinary image of the great actress in the theater, in cinema and in life, her special relationships with Sergei Eisenstein, Vera Maretskaya, Vasily Kachalov, Anna Akhmatova, Lyubov Orlova, Alexander Tairov, Mikhail Romm and others.