Galina Lapina's book is dedicated to American-Soviet concerts and joint projects of the 1930s - theatrical, cinematographic, educational; its heroes are American journalists, journalists, artists, diplomats who worked in Moscow or came to the Soviet capital as creative workers, students, spectators of theatrical decades. Ambassador Joseph Davis and his driver Charlie, writers Lengston Hughes and Sophie Treadwell, actors Blanche Yurka, reporter Walter Duranty spoke differently about what they saw in the USSR.