We lived in an extraordinary era... Memories

Maria Mikhailovna Levis, born in an intelligent Jewish family in St. Petersburg, who received historical education in Bestuzhevsky courses, - a witness and participant of many shocks and events of the 20th century: from the first Russian revolution of 1905 to the repression of the 1930s and the blockade of Leningrad. However, Mary Mikhailovna named her, not only the war, and, perhaps, not so much, how many peace, and with him travel, friendship, meetings with those whose names are well known today (Bonch Osmolovsky , V. Shukhaev, I. Northernik, A. Block, S. Marshak).
Written without clauses, as all personal diaries and letters are written, addressed primarily, these memories are full of the surprising energy of the vitality of narrator, not just who took everything that will send it a century, but as if he advocated towards ever