Russian chart Victor Меламед, well-known works for the anchorwomen of home and foreign newspapers and magazines, - "Коммерсантъ", "Expert", The Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, - in the book divided by reflections about the art of portrait in the past and present, in a high and popular culture, in painting, illustration, caricature and design. Going near creation of portrait from the practical point of view and moving aside a curtain before a creative "kitchen" artist, an author unobtrusively lifts a slat and suggests to be thoughtful us about that, how character of man is formed and perceived.