In this book, Andrey Dementyev, the famous poet, writer, journalist, legend of the XX century, sincerely talks about his life, touching on the key moments of the history of our country: the Great Patriotic War, the post-war devastation, the bright era of the "sixties" and his work in the cult magazine "Yunost", the turning point of the 90s... He can rightfully be called the voice of more than one generation!The reader can see not only fragments of the poet's exceptional creative biography, but also vivid portraits of famous writers, artists, artists, politicians such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Maya Plisetskaya, Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich, Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zurab Tsereteli, Lev Leshchenko, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Nikolai Baskov and others. etc. The book of autobiographical prose by Andrey Dementiev is richly illustrated with unique photographic material from family archives.