Diary. In 2 volumes. Volume 1

Lyubov Vasilievna Shaporina (1879-1967) is the creator of the first puppet theater in Soviet Russia, artist, translator. For the first time, her diary published is a unique phenomenon among domestic diaries of the 20th century. He was conducted from the 1920s to the 1960s and has no equal as prolonged and thematic coverage (politics, economics, religion, life of the city and village, the blockade of Leningrad, political repressions, the activities of the NKVD, literary life, music, painting, painting, Theater, etc), and by the acuity of a critical attitude to Soviet power. The book was reflected by the close acquaintance of Shaporina with A.A. Akhmatova, A.P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva, N.S. Tikhonov, A.N. Tolstoy, D.D. Shostakovich, M.V. Yudina and many other famous contemporaries