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Nina Voronel, a famous poet and translator, the wife of the famous physicist and “refusenik” Alexander Voronel, talks in her memoirs about social and cultural life in the Soviet Union and, in particular, about her meetings and relationships with Korney Chukovsky and Lilya Brik, Boris Pasternak and the Tarkovskys, Andrei Sinyavsky and Julius Daniel, Marya Rozanova and Larisa Bogoraz, David Samoilov and Alla Zimina, Mikhail Grobman and Ilya Kabakov... About the private and sometimes secret lives of these and many other celebrities of a passing, but still mysterious era Nina Voronel, an active participant in those events, narrates the story with talent and grace, wit and unrestrained.