Yuri Ilyich Gurfinkel is a doctor, Doctor of medical Sciences, writer. The author of the book “Still a light gait ...”, as well as essays and short stories published in the magazines “Friendship of Peoples", “October", “Russian Life", “Banner".An attentive listener and an excellent storyteller, Yuri Gurfinkel was closely acquainted with Anastasia Tsvetaeva for seventeen years. In the center of the book “Non—accidental meetings” is the Tsvetaev family and their contemporaries: Vladimir and Vera Nabokov, Salvador Dali and Gala, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik, Alexander Chizhevsky ... Conversations with Anastasia Ivanovna restored from memory, a joint trip to Holland, meetings with the Nabokov family in Switzerland — such an author paints the passing literary era of the twentieth century centuries. The publication is accompanied by unique photographs.“This double life — the service of a doctor-resuscitator and leisure — literary work — makes him, in my opinion, the most valuable, the rarest phenomenon. Ruthlessness towards oneself in this constant listening to infallibility, not missing an hour of reality and not getting tired of listening to the melody of fabulousness blowing over it, over reality, — it blows over everything” (Anastasia Tsvetaeva).