Book of memoirs of Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915–1979), one of the most famous Soviet writers, author of the trilogy “The Living and the Dead” and many textbook poems of the wartime (“Wait for me”, “Do you remember, Alyosha, the roads of the Smolensk region...” etc.), filled with reflections on the complexities and contradictions of his era. It tells about the childhood, youth, development of the author’s personality, about his meetings with I. V. Stalin, G. K. Zhukov and other famous military leaders with whom Simonov was familiar since the time of the military conflict at Khalkhin Gol, as well as with I. Bunin, I. Ehrenburg, A. Tvardovsky, V. Lugovsky, N. Hikmet, Ch. Chaplin, V. Pudovkin and other figures of literature and art. The book consists of memoir essays from different years, as well as the writer’s latest, and most frank, book, “Through the Eyes of a Man of My Generation.”