The name of Alexander Viktorovich Zbruev is known to everyone - a Soviet and Russian theater, film and television actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR. The book by the famous film director Sergei Aleksandrovich Solovyov, based on his film about Alexander Zbruev from the series “Those with whom I…” for the TV channel “Culture”, is imbued with a reverent attitude towards the outstanding contemporaries with whom fate brought the author together on the set and beyond. His verbal portraits of outstanding screen masters are devoid of banal features, well-known facts, they are warmed by the unique personal intonation of the author, who talks about his colleagues in art freely, relaxed, ironically, but also tenderly, with a lot of vivid details and details known only to him.