The era in which Andrei Bitov lived ... These are the years of the thaw - a time of hope, a bright entry into literature, and a period of 'stagnation', when the main novel 'Pushkin's House' could only be read in samizdat. And perestroika, and the turbulent 1990s, and transformations in the country - a different breath, changes in life and work. An intellectual writer, a unique interlocutor - his aphoristic wise phrases instantly scattered among friends and acquaintances, remembered by readers. Prose writers, poets, journalists, film directors, theater and film actors. Among them are Dmitry Bykov, Solomon Volkov, Alexander Genis, Alexander Kushner, Sergei Solovyov, Vadim Abdrashitov, Yuri Belyaev and many others.