Favorite star. Radziwill A.

She was born in a distant 1947 on an ice floe in the Kara Sea, at the Arctic Polar Station, and passed away in hot summer 2022 in Moscow, having managed to compile this final book, give it a name and add the last story for her already in the hospital The ward.

Anna Radziwill grew on Kolyma and Magadan, and even at the pole of the cold in Verkhoyansk. But the unchanging point of attraction for her was always her favorite Leningrad, where she entered them after graduation. A. Zhdanova, dreaming of learning to write stories. However, they did not teach this at the philological faculty, and very different life circumstances forced her to master a variety of professions: a teacher of Russian language and literature, an engineer, a factory radio editor, a translator and even an instructor and a service dog dog. And everything came in handy, because from her youth she learned the Kuprinsky order that the writer should “see everything, know everything, be able to write everything and write about everything.”

This book is a tribute to a woman with a whimsical fate and Typically Russian writer. And gratitude for her spiritualizing creativity.