This book is about the drama that played out in the 90s of the last century in the editorial office of Izvestia. About the secrets of the inner life of the famous creative team and the behind-the-scenes intrigues that blew it up. About wonderful traditions and interrupted continuity, qualifications and talent, masters of real and imaginary, love and cunning, friendship and betrayal, glory and ingloriousness. About the contradictions that turned out to be characteristic of the domestic media during the years of the newest "great turning point." About the collapse of the once popular profession of a journalist, which so unexpectedly coincided in time with the onset of "freedom of speech."