Narodnyi artist SSSR Evgenii Iakovlevich Vesnik (1923-2009) sygral bolee 140 rolei v teatre i bolee 90 v kino. V poslednii period zhizni on otkryl v sebe eshche i talant literatora â€" stal avtorom bolee desiatka knig. V svoikh vospominaniiakh Evgenii Vesnik povestvuet o svoem detstve, o frontovykh godakh, o rabote v teatre i kino, o druziakh i kollegakh, delitsia vpechatleniiami o mnogochislennykh teatralnykh gastroliakh v Germanii, Izraile, Frantcii, Iaponii. V nastoiashchee izdanie ego memuarov voshli mnogochislennye ranee ne publikovavshiesia materialy iz ego arkhiva, a takzhe bolshoe kolichestvo fotoilliustratcii.