Iz bloknota - Dolgopolov N.

Writer and journalist of "Russian newspaper", a regular guest of many TV shows, who wrote 13 books about scouts, which came out in the series "YSL" and became bestsellers, this time turned to the memoir genre.
There are so many names in this book! Nowhere else can you read about what his father told him about his contemporaries Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Shostakovich. The author himself was friends with the writer Vladimir Maximov and the illusionist Emil Kio, pianist Emil Gilels, composer Alexander Tsfasman, actor Nikolai Karachenkov, in Paris met with the great Francoise Sagan. He worked in Iran and France, studied in Scotland. In the early days of the Chernobyl tragedy he worked in a 30-kilometer closed zone. And how many meetings at the thirteen Olympics! It turned out to be a small encyclopedia of soviet-era life and the beginning of the present one.