About life

The history of St. Petersburg of the twentieth century - through the eyes of an outstanding Russian scientist, academician of Likhachev.
The fate of one Petersburg family in his memoirs seems to become a mirror that reflects the past of our country.
The amazing world of the Silver Age and the October Revolution, “Stormy Country. The twenties ”and the difficult time of the Stalinist terror, the tragedy of the blockade of Leningrad and the post -war era, the“ deaf ”of the Brezhnev stagnation and the rejection of the totalitarian regime, which intensifies with every year, is the background on which Dmitry Likhachev’s formation as a“ man of science ”and just a person who became for for Contemporaries with a model of resistance, honesty and decency