Natalia Gromova is a novelist, researcher of literary life in the 1920s and 30s, author of the books “The Key. The Last Moscow”, ”Disintegration. The fate of the Soviet critic: the 1940s – 50s”, “Lydia Libedinskaya's Tablecloth”, “Wanderers of the War: Memoirs of children of writers". The book is based on diaries and documentary materials. The publication is supplemented with new materials from the notebooks and recently opened diaries (of the post-war period) of Olga Bergholts, as well as new photographs. Some chapters of the book have been finalized and rewritten.