"Russian diary" of laureate Пулитцеровской bonuses of writer John Стейнбека and known military photographer Robert Капы are the classics of reporting and ground notes. A quadragesimal journey of two masters on Soviet Union in 1947 was the expedition of curious. Капа and Стейнбек "wanted to imprint everything, what an eye will fall down on, and to erect from supervisions and reflections some structure that would serve the model of the looked after reality". Structure that they chose for the book - and actually dominant metaphor of the "Russian diary", is the portrait of Soviet Union. A portrait is in a scope. They saw and with неравнодушием imprinted on a paper and on tape that Стейнбек named "large other side - private life of the Russian people". "Russian diary" and until now remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document.