The book is about a remarkable poet and translator Arseny Tarkovsky and his son, a brilliant director Andrei Tarkovsky includes not only a story about their life and work. The book includes previously unknown to the general reader mate rials of the lives of several generations of the family: the first time published a letter to Tarkovsky’s first wife, the mother of Andrew and Marina Tarkovsky, and, based on data collected from various Russian archives documents the story of the ancestors of the poet, who played a significant role in both the political and the cultural life of Russia Noah. The book includes memories of his first wife Andreya Tarkovskogo - the actress Irma Rausch Tarkovsky, writer Andrei Bitov, hudozhni ka Michael Romadina and others.