Zapiski russkoi amerikanki: Semeinye khroniki i sluchainye vstrechi - Matich O,

Olga Matic (b. 1940) - Russian American from a family of old immigrants. Her maternal great-uncle is political activist and writer Vasily Shulgin, great-aunt - artist Elena Kiselyova, Repin's favorite. His grandfather Alexander Bilimovich, one of the first Russian economists to use the mathematical method, was a member of the "Special Meeting" at Denikin. His father, by chance, joined the White Army at the age of thirteen and went abroad with it. "Family Chronicles," the first part of the memoirs, cover the history of the family (and its loved ones, people), starting with great-grandfathers. "The Will of Chance" is one of the leitmotifs of the notes, so the second part is called "Random Encounters." They are mainly devoted to the author's relations with Russian writers - V. Aksenov, B. Akhmadulina, S. Dovlatov, P. Korolenko, E. Limonov, B. Okujava, D. Prigov, A. Sinyavsky, S. Sokolov and T. Tolstoy... 0. Matic is an expert in Russian literature and culture and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.