Happiness is Simple. Serious Unserious Letters

Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin... People laughed at his circus sketches (among them "The Pump", "The Ponies", "The Log", "Roses and Thorns"), admired the astonishingly played roles in the movies "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style...", "The Dog Barbos and a Strange Race", "Moonshiners", "The Diamond Arm", "Old Men-Robbers" (the list can go on forever), quoted his witty phrases from them, and went to the famous circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard… He was an idol for millions. The real book — touching and very detailed letters from the artist to his mother — Lydia Nikolaevna, which are published for the first time. Their geography is vast — America, Canada, Australia, France, and other countries — and everywhere Y. Nikulin remembered home and his loved ones, which gave him strength and inspiration. Serious, slightly ironic, moderately tender, and sometimes sharp, these letters, like links of one chain, connected to each other, tell what the beloved artist Yuri Nikulin thought about, what he felt, where he was, and what he did in his “golden years”.