A charming and unusual autobiography and an author’s homage to the men who shaped her writing career: ranging from a cheeky schoolboy, two authors, a screenplay writer, to Mikhail Gorbachev and a Swiss publisher.

Viktorija Tokarjewa, the grande dame of Russian literature, tells the story of her life – by way of the men who helped her to become a writer and allowed her talent to blossom. These men believed in her, infuriated her, loved her, revolutionised her country, challenged her.
And as a bonus track: a very personal essay about Viktorija Tokarjewa’s literary role model, Anton Chekhov.