On the air of the Orpheus radio channel for several years, the author's program of the journalist, writer and presenter Irina Semenovna Klenskaya "Good tone. Walks through the Hermitage— - about great treasures and the people who cherish them, and, of course, included conversations with the director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky about life, about meanings, about art, about history and memory. One day there was an audacious idea to turn a radio program into a book. Mikhail Borisovich thought about it and said: "Why not? Let's take a chance!" And here is this book in front of you.