The name of Nikolai Ostrovsky for the whole world has become a symbol of courage, integrity, devotion to the interests of the Communist Party. Many generations of Soviet people were brought up on the works of Nikolai Ostrovsky "How Steel Was Tempered," "Born by the Storm" - this is the result of the heroic life of a writer, fighter, communist. A new book about Ostrovsky was written by his friend and wife, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR Raisa Porfirievna Ostrovskaya. The impressions of a person close to the writer, who passed a difficult but happy path with him, gives the book special interest.