Embassy in Havana. Myths and reality. Kovalenko V.G.

Valery Kovalenko’s book “Embassy in Havana. Myths and reality ”will be interesting to readers of different generations. This is an entertaining and cognitive picture of late Soviet times; The author’s memories, his impressions of personal meetings with many bright, extraordinary people, whose trace remained in history one way or another. On the pages of the book, we will meet with famous military leaders, statesmen, politicians, artists. with Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev, with Fidel Castro and his brothers.

The main theme of the book is the work of the Soviet embassy in Havana, where Valery Kovalenko was an administrator - assistant to the ambassador; Features of the life of diplomats and embassy employees abroad, a fascinating story about Cuba and ordinary Cubans - about their habits, clothes, food. and much more.