Faina Ranevskaya’s personal archive, which was considered lost for more than a quarter of a century, revealed not only her sensational memoirs, diaries, drawings, but also a selection of poems. During her lifetime, the great actress did not show them even to her closest friends, among whom was Anna Akhmatova - Ranevskaya considered her a Poet with a capital P, and herself as just a “rhyme-maker” (her own words). However, anyone who is lucky enough to read this book can be convinced that Ranevskaya’s “verses” are real poetry: witty, talented, very funny, very bitter, very personal. Like her unknown manuscript, kept in the same folder with poems and entitled “Unprintable Aphorisms”: “Those lying down who are not beaten are usually wiped with their feet.” “You can eat free cheese from a mousetrap. If you are the second mouse, not the first." "Real men don't cry. But how they whine sometimes!” “To two eternal Russian questions, “Who is to blame?” and “What should I do?” a long time ago there was a simple Russian answer: “Who the hell knows!”