Dmitry Likhachev

The spiritual authority of academician Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev is so great that he is rightly called the "conscience of the nation". His books, articles, conversations are a great heritage, the study of which helps to keep the traditions of Russian culture, the service of which he devoted his life. All new “rulers of thoughts” arose in the country and sometimes it seemed that a fair society was about to create. But the popularity of politicians subsided, the background of public life changed. Only a modest, deeply intelligent Likhachev, who spoke aloud about true values, survived. The author of the book "Dmitry Likhachev" Historical Chronicles", Valery Popov, offers the reader his opinion on why all the best that is appreciated by us was connected in the academician of Likhachev, tells how Dmitry Sergeyevich survived during the years of deprivation, as he was with his neighbors, how He achieved what seemed impossible - the salvation of the monuments of Russian material and spiritual culture