Bella Akhmadulina is a poet who graced the second half of the XX century in Russia.Isabella, Bella, Belka, Bella Akhatovna… She lived a dramatic life, the last decade of which turned out to be tragic.With all the colossal experience of public speaking, Akhmadulina was shy, shy. Once, having glimpsed Boris Pasternak in Peredelkin, Bella "from low dizziness" did not dare to come to visit in response to an invitation. However, a few years later she became her own person in the house of Boris Leonidovich.She did not agree if they called her a "sixties girl", despised self-interested people, did not like jokes and knew how to defame anyone who behaved cheekily.Her best friends were not those with whom she took stadiums at the age of twenty-five, but Voinovich, Aksenov, Vladimov, Okudzhava, who were not approved by the authorities.Akhmadulina's human rights petitions were distinguished by grace — here she especially appreciated the syllable. The Voice of America even called the letter in defense of Academician Sakharov a poem.This book is an unreal biography of the poet. It is based not only on poetry and prose published in considerable circulation, but also on previously unknown archival documents (the family history is traced to the fourth generation), letters found by Marina Zavada and Yuri Kulikov, diaries, unpublished poems, frank conversations with dozens of people from Bella's inner circle. Basically, the truth.In a word, "The color and shadows of Bella Akhmadulina."