And yet life is beautiful

In this book, Andrei Dementyev, a famous poet, writer, journalist, and a legend of the 20th century, sincerely talks about his life, touching on key moments in the history of our country: the Great Patriotic War, the post-war devastation, the vibrant era of the "sixties" and his work at the cult magazine "Youth", the turning point of the 90s... He can rightfully be called the voice of more than one generation! The reader is presented not only with fragments of the poet's exceptional creative biography but also with vivid portraits of famous writers, artists, performers, and politicians such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Maya Plisetskaya, Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich, Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zurab Tsereteli, Lev Leshchenko, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Nikolai Baskov, etc. The autobiographical prose of Andrei Dementyev is richly illustrated with unique photographic materials from family archives.