The territory of my love. 3rd edition. Mikhalkov N.S.

The book of the famous director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov is a wonderful example of bright autobiographical prose. Private life and creativity are weighed here inextricably. Starting with his genealogy (among the author’s ancestors - the associates of Dmitry Donskoy and Yermak, the boyars of Ivan the Terrible and Vasily Surikov), Nikita Mikhalkov moves to the memories of his mother, the father - the author of the anthem of the USSR and the new Russia. An interesting history of relations with the older brother, a famous film director, is followed by a story about his children - Ana, Nadia, Stepan, Artem.

New, sometimes unexpectedly unexpected for the reader in the fate of the author, opens his confidential story about many episodes of personal life. About mutual feeling and dramatic break with Anastasia Vertinskaya and about love for life for her wife Tatyana. About service in the army in the Pacific Ocean and Kamchatka... and, of course, about their roles and directorial works.