About the book: 1996 / New World. - 1996. - No. 8. — P.149-159. Alfred Mikhailovich Solyanov was born in 1930. Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. Lives in Moscow. Author of the story “Fedka from the former Vozdvizhenka”, published in 1974 by the publishing house “Young Guard”, and the poetry collection “Serega the Loser” (1995). He published translations of poetry and prose from German and English, in particular by W. Thackeray, R. M. Rilke, G. Meyrink. Known as a bard - a performer of original songs. The first publication in Novy Mir was the essay “How my uncle and I wrote the story of the Warsaw Uprising» (1995, № 6).