Probably, not all readers will recognize this person with a soft smile and a wise, slightly ironic look from under the glasses. But when they see his drawings, they will immediately say: this is Boris Efimov! Because from early childhood, not yet able to read, everyone recognized this confident, subtle touch and this clear line. Years passed, times changed... Only the Master's handwriting, no matter what, remains unchanged. And the artist wrote this book in his own style. With the same subtle, confident, laconic strokes he creates expressive portraits of those who met him on his life path. And this list is long and impressive: Stalin and Trotsky, Mayakovsky and Lunacharsky, Kukryniksy and Herluf Bidstrup... And the closest and dearest person to the author is his brother, a wonderful journalist Mikhail Koltsov, who perished in Stalin's dungeons... In the book of Boris Efimov, funny and tragic, light and gloomy are intertwined, and it is impossible to separate them, because all this together is life.