His wife Maria Bakshtaeva tells about the actor of the Ukrainian theater and cinema Leonid Bakshtaev. He was a man devoted to his work, for whom the notions of honor and nobility were natural. Two weeks before the end of his earthly life, Leonid Bakshtaev asked to submit an article about his old friend to the Ukrainian Theater magazine. And when the author of the article died, it was published. And it was like the light of a distant fading star.