About the book: year / Nonna Mordyukova is not just a great actress, she is a symbol of the Russian woman, strong, tough, principled and at the same time soft, attentive, filled with all-consuming love and self-sacrifice. She is ours, real. There has never been another actress like her and there never will be. She succeeded in everything: dramatic, character roles and great comedic characters. She said: “In the cinema, everyone tries to cry as quickly as possible. But it’s easiest to cry, you try to laugh so that the audience bursts into laughter!” When you read this book, you seem to hear her voice. Emotionally and colorfully, Nonna Mordyukova talks about her life, the roles she played, the directors and actors with whom she had the opportunity to work, about those whom she loved and hated, whom she admired and whom she despised. Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Vasily Shukshin, Nikita Mikhalkov and many others in Nonna Mordyukova’s book “Don’t Cry, Cossack Girl,” supplemented by the memories of her sister and statements of people who knew and loved this Great woman.