The story of the friendship and collaboration between Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin Nizhny Novgorod mathematician Dmitry Andreevich Gudkov during last period Rokhlin’s mathematical biography, when he worked in topology real algebraic varieties, which obtained remarkable results. paper is based on correspondence 1971–1982 preserved Gudkov’s archive containing 15 letters by V. A.Rokhlin 8 D. A. Gud...