You have an unusual book. In it, Maya Plisetskaya is both a heroine and an author. This role was well known to her from the stage: performing the task of a choreographer, she constantly improvised, invented her own. Each of her dances looked so bright that it was immediately remembered by the viewer. No less bright was the "alphabet" of thoughts, feelings, impressions, experiences that she shared in the last years of her life with the writer and musician Semyon Gurariy. This story did not get into her previously published books and numerous interviews, he fascinates with his aphorism and frankness, introducing Maya Plisetskaya, unknown to us. Rodion Shchedrin also supports the conversation, reflecting on creativity, art, inspiration, the secrets of great music.