The diary is a purely conventional genre definition of the prose of the famous Soviet playwright Evgeny Schwartz (1896 - 1958). Before us is a kind of autobiography, which is deeply confessional in nature. It contains thoughts about the daily work of the writer, and the events that he witnessed, from the 900s until the end of his life, and literary portraits of many contemporaries: M. Zoshchenko, V. Kaverin, M. Slonimsky, Yu. Tynyanov, K. Chukovsky and others, written truthfully, concisely, brightly.