"[M. Koltsov]: 'It's time for you to stop writing poetry. Go into journalism…' That is how a new life began for me – a restless, difficult, and beautiful life as a special correspondent. A better one I do not know" (T.N. Tess)

"In the ninth hour the day begins, not knowing where to rush, hissing, lilac asters of primuses blossom in the mad crush. Like a banner of comfort, four flames, and higher, in habitual panic, four family teapots blow little bubbles and ring…"

With the poem "The Apartment" (Chudak, No. 10, 1929), Tess (Sosyura) Tatyana Nikolaevna (1906-1983), special correspondent for the newspaper "Izvestia" (1934-1983), opened her path into journalism.

The RUDN University Library holds collections of her essays and stories about people of labor and science, about the besieged Hermitage ("Under Our Sky", 1953), about assignments based on readers' letters – "A Man Turned to the Editorial Office" (1964). There is also the first edition of her documentary novella "Mother of the Living" (1961), known from the radio play of the same name (1962).

Tatyana Tess is one of six Soviet women invited to the USA in 1964 by participants of the movement "Women, Fight for Peace!". Her book "American Women" (1966) is accompanied by illustrations by the leading graphic artist of the magazine "Krokodil", Vitaly Nikolaevich Goryaev (1910–1982), a participant in the Congress of Cartoonists (Indianapolis, 1958).

Her American impressions formed the basis of the story "The House Was Called 'Merry Morning'", which, along with other sketches by T. Tess from her "far journeys" to Mexico, England, Australia, Italy, Sweden, Greece, and Japan, became part of the collection "Night Shooting" (1973).

"The life of your hero became closely intertwined with your own fate," the writer admits to herself in the preface to the novella about the artist Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov (1903-1977) – "Journey Without Companions" (1974). Collections of T. Tess's personal recollections about the friends of her youth – Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (1894-1940), Roman Lazarevich Karmen (1906-1978), Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (1893-1953), Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov (1898–1940) and other contemporaries – are titled precisely that: "Close to the Heart" (1980) and "Friends of My Soul" (1982; 1985).