The book of the famous writer, author of the sensational story "The Man with the Accordion" by Anatoly Makarov is a kind of guide to the favorite places of Moscow bohemia of the 60-80s. Elena Bonner, Lyudmila Petrushepskaya, Pavel Kogan, Andrei Mironov, Edward Radzinsky, Mark Rozovsky, Vasily Livanov - what do all these people have in common? Well, at least the fact that they all studied at the same Moscow school. Hotel "National," Gogolevsky Boulevard, cafe "Artistic," st. Gorky (now Tverskaya) and Pushkinskaya Square, Moscow Art Theater, WTO and Izvestia - all these places in Moscow in their own way united the now famous artists, poets, actors, writers. This book, like no other, allows you to plunge into the past, feel the taste of the past era - the sounds of Okudzhava's songs, poems of forbidden poets, skits, cigarette smoke, coffee, and conversations, conversations, conversations...