About the book: 2013 / Yuri Koval could do everything: he was a poet and prose writer, a sculptor and artist, he sang wonderfully, he was a passionate hunter and fisherman. In this book for leisurely reading, Yuli Kim, Yuri Ryashentsev, Andrey Bitov, Yuri Norshtein, Viktor Erofeev speak and write about Koval. Victor Chizhikov, Iya Savvina. Marina Tarkovskaya, Eduard Uspensky, Sergei Ivanov, Marina Moskvina, Tatyana Bek, Marina Boroditskaya, Dmitry Sukharev and many others. Here are collected memories and articles published earlier or recorded and prepared for publication by the compiler specifically for this edition, as well as texts of radio broadcasts, interviews, fragments of letters. The leitmotif of the book was the words of Elmira Blinova: “Koval was loved by absolutely everyone - writers and readers, children and adults , men and women, simple people and people in hats. Loved dogs, cats, birds, fish, butterflies, trees, grass, stars and clouds».