Andrey Mironov, Yuri Nikulin, Arkady Raikin, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Nikolai Rybnikov, Vasily Shukshin, Leonid Filatov, Lyubov Polishchuk. These people remained in the memory of many generations of viewers. Outstanding artists are the idols of millions. Without exaggeration, the whole country knew them, they were loved by everyone. It seemed to many that their idols had achieved everything in life, and saw only the glossy side of their success. But they also had a simple, everyday life, which only their loved ones knew about. Almost every day of the year is remembered for us by the name of an outstanding person and, perhaps, it is worth remembering him on this day, learning some unknown details of his life and work in order to better understand how he lived and how his thorny path to the top ran.