The history of “Surganova and the Orchestra” began 9 years ago, when Svetlana Surganova left the group “Night Snipers”. The history of this book began much earlier - almost simultaneously with how Surganova herself and her love for writing and recording began. Song texts, spontaneous poems and favorite quotes by Svetlana Surganova framed from frank “marginal notes” and author’s graphics - in the long-awaited “Notebook of Words”! In the book that you hold in your hands are my “charms”, my sympathies, outbursts and reflections. This is a kind of sensory-emotional autobiography, the costs and delights of a Puritan upbringing. “The Notebook of Words” would never have been born if not for the people who surround me. They treat what “Surganova and the Orchestra” does with love and some kind of motherly patience that is always missing from me. It is their support that inspires me and helps me move on. “Notebook of Words” is published thanks to and for the sake of my audience. Thank you for life! Svetlana Surganova