This book is dedicated to the life and work of the world famous singer, People's Artist of the USSR Elena Vasilyevna Obraztsova. The reader is presented with the image of an amazingly charming person, a restless artist with his joys, anxieties and hopes, for whom art was the meaning of his whole life. The book includes Elena Obraztsova’s diary entries, her stories about her family, teachers, teachers of the Leningrad Conservatory, accompanists A.P. Erokhin, V. N. Chachava, about working on opera roles and performances at the Bolshoi Theater, conversations with the singer, the author of the book itself, I. P. Sheiko. A special place is occupied by the story of the singer’s work with the composer G. V. Sviridov, the Moscow Chamber Choir of V. N. Minin, about creative meetings with foreign musicians and famous opera artists, including G. Karayan, C. Abbado, M. Caballe, R. Scotto, A. Kraus, P. Domingo, F. Zeffirelli and others. The publication is organically supplemented by the first published “Leaves from a Notebook”, revealing the rich spiritual world of Elena Obraztsova, and numerous photographs that develop and complement the main themes of the book.