Irakli Andronikov tells about his youth, when his talent as an imitator manifested itself, about his work as a lecturer at the Leningrad Philharmonic, shares his memories of the musicologist and literary scholar I.I.Sollertinsky, about the artists V.I.Kachalov, A.A.Ostuzhev, about the writers M.Gorky and A.N.Tolstoy.