Valentin Mikhailovich Falin is a unique and unforgettable phenomenon of Soviet diplomacy, politics, and science. The quintessence of the uniqueness of his personality is that knowledge, experience, character, and fate forged principles and fearlessness in him. For the fact that he did not betray his principles, did not adapt to the situation, he was not always thanked by those who were not aware of what Griboyedov’s “I would be glad to serve, it’s sickening to be served.” But today, when they talk about a “principled foreign policy,” we remember precisely the stern, full of inner dignity and charm V.M. Falina. We bring to your attention an unusual book. Its first part is notes from our contemporaries who knew Valentin Mikhailovich personally. He was called "The Man Between Two Times." But we understand perfectly well that he was a man of both our time and the future. The second is Falin’s articles written for the media in the period from 1984 to 2015. Their relevance is amazing! The third and final part of the book is notes “for myself” from V.M.’s notebook. Falin, where he wrote down for many decades the most intimate, interesting, painful things... Reading them, you can feel what was dear, what he thought about and how he lived. The publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.