"And the translator is the same horseman, the only one who rode, loved and caressed his native language like his beloved horse. A horseman with a saving message."A memoir story by the famous poet Marina Boroditskaya about old Moscow and the secrets of translation skills from the Editorial Office of Elena Shubina.A motley kaleidoscope of Moscow literary life and a mosaic of everyday life from aphorisms, dialogues, and everyday sketches.In her sincere and poignant essays, Marina Boriditskaya presents us with a whole gallery of literary portraits of iconic authors for Russian culture: Yakov Akim, Valentin Berestov, Wilhelm Levik, Mikhail Yasnov and many others.The first teachers and colleagues, studies at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and in literary associations, debut publications of poetic translations and their own poems, marriage and the birth of children, poetic and translation fraternity...Each part of the book is generously sprinkled with poems by Marina Boroditskaya, which in a different form reveal the main theme of the collection and the author's life credo: life is a gift, let's thank her for every joy.