About the book: 2005 / The book of the wonderful actress Lydia Nikolaevna Smirnova is a sincere, direct story about herself, about the people with whom her fate collided (and among them the legendary personalities - Dunaevsky, Romm, Ranevskaya, Tairov, Orlova, Mikhoels), about life in cinema, to which she devoted more than half a century, and, of course, about love. Boldly, at times recklessly frank, but at the same time touchingly, the actress talks about friends and lovers (she fell in love many times and was loved by many), about the joy of creativity, to which she devotes herself passionately and selflessly, and about bitter loneliness, which is also familiar to her.…