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The life and creative path of Victoria Tokareva are filled with friendship, love, amazing events, meetings, and, most importantly, a "habit of creativity" that, quoting the author, "is also an addiction, and it is useless to fight it." Tolstoy and Chekhov, Dovlatov and Voinovich, Danelia and Fellini, Volodin, Mityayev, Todorovsky — all of them are heroes featured in the collection of essays and stories. And of course, an autobiographical narrative, because "family is the main value of a person. It supports from the left and right. It doesn’t let you fall and sink." The collection concludes with a brilliant interview — the quintessence of the life principles and philosophical system of the writer.