About the book: 2017 / “Work doesn’t bring me pleasure anymore. It’s even strange to me that I once considered her everything to me,” Oleg Dal wrote in his diary, and a week later he died. The book, compiled by the actor’s best friend A.G. Ivanov, provides unique evidence about the last years of the most popular Soviet actor Oleg Dahl. The actor’s close relatives, his friends, theater colleagues say... The book for the first time explores a topic that worries many of Dahl’s fans - the mystery of his unexpected death. The actor's diary entries and the memories of relatives who observed the changes that have occurred in the last few years tell the best story about what was happening in the soul of this man. One of Dahl's last film roles - the charming scoundrel Zilov in Vampilov's "Duck Hunt" - turned out to be fatal for him … “The worst betrayal a friend can commit is to die,” he writes in his diary, and a few days later his heart stops…