Oleg Basilashvili - People's Artist of the USSR, renowned theater and film actor. He worked with such famous directors as Eldar Ryazanov, Karen Shakhnazarov, Georgiy Daneliya. His partners included Alisa Freindlich, Lia Akhedzhakova, Natalia Gundareva, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Andrei Myagkov, and many others. Several generations of viewers know the actor for his brilliant roles in the films "Office Romance", "Autumn Marathon", "Railway for Two", "Courier", "Promised Heaven"… The list of roles played by Oleg Basilashvili is impressive: among his characters were doctors, directors, workers, professors, generals, officials, engineers, and there were outright scoundrels as well as refined intellectuals. The actor knows how to embody any image, to put on any mask, while remaining a calm, gentle, and very loving person in life. In his fate, Georgian ancestry, old Moscow origins, the MkhAT school, and the academic stronghold of the G.A. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater have been intertwined in a truly amazing way. The endless marathon of meetings, debates, and performances became the foundation for the story told in the pages of this book. Open it, and your soul will feel warmer.
