Suddenly, Kirusya said with longing: 'I'm so tired of all this. Most of my interviews are distorted. I say one thing, but they print who knows what. Relatives also try, telling tall tales. And how would they know what was really going on with us Alliluyevs, if they were either born much later or were so young that they can't remember anything! I am the oldest of the children in our family, and therefore, unlike them, I do not just remember the events from the late 1920s, not to mention the 1930s and 1940s. I've seen it, I've heard it, and I'll never forget it!'This is how the idea came to record the memoirs of Kira Pavlovna Alliluyeva-Politkovskaya (1919-2009), the niece of I. V. Stalin. An unexpected discovery in the spring of 2025 — Kirushi's diary and her stories, like signs of fate, made me sit down at this book and immerse myself in an era that still raises many questions that still have no answers. Among her heroes are Alliluyev and his children Pavel, Anna, Fedor, Nadezhda, their families, colleagues, acquaintances — old and casual, friends and foes: Lenin, Stalin, Svanidze, Kirov, Ordzhonikidze, Voroshilov, Beria, Redens, Shaposhnikov, Bernes, Gelovani, Romm, Kapler, Gagarin, Raikin Vysotsky and many others. . From the author of the bestseller "Mosaic. Ballet. The Nutcracker" and the co-author of the project "My Theater". — The life story of Kira Pavlovna Alliluyeva, the niece of Joseph Stalin himself. — The famous ballet historian Irina Pavlovna Deshkova personally knew Kira Alliluyeva for many years, so the book is based on Alliluyeva's diaries and her many hours of conversations with Irina Pavlovna. — In Kira Pavlovna's memoirs, the events and the most important figures of the Soviet era appear from a completely new angle.