Nanny. Who nursed Russian geniuses

The book "Nanny" is a unique collection of memoirs of outstanding figures of Russian culture and science of the 19-20th centuries about their nannies. The idea of ​​the collection belongs to the wonderful Russian writer S.N. Durilin. Having gathered a folder of memoirs of his famous contemporaries and predecessors, he, unfortunately, did not manage to start this work. However, the colossal historical and cultural significance of the phenomenon of the Russian nanny, "... this great mother of the Russian man only according to the law of love, and not according to the law of parenthood, forced Victoria Nikolaevna Toropov - the author of the biography of S.N. Durylina (ZhZL) - to complete the priceless work.
Dostoevsky, Leskov, Bunin, Merezhkovsky, Herzen, Khodasevich, Sofya Kovalevskaya, Prince Trubetskoy - a list of familiar and not very familiar names you will see in the content of this book. This is a list of authors, built in time, at which the childhood of a memoirist, who left the wonderful, warm memories of ordinary people who raised them, had a childhood.
Who are we? Who are our ancestors? How did they live? Who do we look like? Why do we have everything as it is? And what could it be or how should it be? Such questions probably asked every Russian end of 20 and the beginning of 21 centuries. About how children were brought up at the turn of other eras, namely the end of 19 - early 20 centuries, we can learn from this collection of memoirs. The history of thought and social development in Russia can hardly be understandable without the private history of families. This book is for everyone who is dear to the way and the customs of a departed era, for a wide range of readers who are interested in our history and culture