Tatyana Doronina’s book is written wonderfully subtly and at the same time vividly, powerfully, and expressively. It’s interesting not only because on its pages we meet Georgy Tovstonogov and Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Ekaterina Furceva and Pavel Luspekayev, Alla Tarasova and Vladislav Strizhelchik—and very often we see them in an unexpected and completely new perspective for us. The main thing is different, though: the author managed, through her own fate, to show the fate of an entire generation. And just as clearly, Time itself stands behind the shoulders of each of the heroines whose image she creates on stage or on screen—a wonderful Woman and an Actress—Tatyana Doronina.