“To get recognition—you must, and even necessarily, die,” said Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya. But that wasn’t the case for her. She was never shy about her wording. Ranevskaya’s wit is like a reflex—it’s involuntary. Among the dozens of books about Faina Ranevskaya, these “Notes...” gather not only her best aphorisms and quotes, which form a full story of her life, but also recollections about the most famous people of that era: Anna Akhmatova, with whom Ranevskaya survived the evacuation together, Rostislav Plyatt, Olga Aroseva, and many, many others...