Andrei Andreevich Gromyko, diplomat and statesman of the USSR, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In the first book of his memoirs, Andrei Gromyko talks about his childhood, youth, family, as well as his first confident steps in the public sphere. Andrei Andreevich’s perseverance, hard work and determination helped him make a dizzying career as the most outstanding diplomat of the Soviet era. Gromyko’s life motto became an inexorable credo of Soviet diplomacy: “Better ten years of negotiations than one day of war.” Memoirs of A.A. Gromyko is a chronicle of Soviet life. The book covers the most important milestones of the 20th century both for the whole world and for Soviet Russia.