Oleg Basilashvili is a People's Artist of the USSR, a famous theater and film actor. He worked with such renowned directors as Eldar Ryazanov, Karen Shakhnazarov, and Georgy Daneliya. His partners were Alisa Freyndlikh, Liya Akhedzhakova, Natalya Gundareva, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Andrey Myagkov, and many others.

Several generations of viewers know the actor for his brilliant roles in the films 'Office Romance', 'Autumn Marathon', 'Station for Two', 'The Messenger', 'Promised Heaven'…

The list of roles played by Oleg Basilashvili is impressive: his heroes have included doctors, directors, workers, professors, generals, officials, engineers; there have been outright scoundrels and exquisitely intelligent people. The actor is able to embody any image, to try on any mask, while in life he remains a calm, gentle, deeply loving person. In his fate, the most astonishing things are mixed together: Georgian ancestry, Old Moscow origins, the Moscow Art Theatre school, and the academic stronghold of the G. A. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre.

An endless marathon of meetings, debates, and performances became the basis for the story told on the pages of this book. Open it, and your heart will feel warmer.