A Leisurely Life

This book contains an enormous number of names of famous people: actors Vysotsky, Tabakov, Menshikov, director Lyubimov, writers Aksenov, Solzhenitsyn, Bitov, artists, politicians, musicians—Zoya Boguslavskaya’s book is a true encyclopedia of the cultural life of Moscow (and far beyond) over the last 80 years. A centenarian, Zoya Borisovna writes only about what she herself witnessed and took part in. For the past quarter of a century, she has been keeping notes—a chronicle of the most interesting events—and along the way she remembers her life. These notes are unique. Everything she tells about cannot be read anywhere else, and no one else will tell it the same way.