“People are the most important thing in my memories, these meetings are worth living for.” The life of Dmitry Likhachev, told by himself.
Academician Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906–1999), a specialist in ancient Russian literature and culture, is almost the same age as the century, a witness to the revolution and the tragic events that followed it, arrests and executions, persecution of the church, the young man was arrested for participating in a student circle and exiled to the Solovetsky camp special purpose, later worked at the construction site of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. After his release, he returned to Leningrad, where a few years later, together with his family, he survived the first years of the blockade. Further — scientific activity, teaching, the academic publication of «The Tale of Igor’s Campaign», honorary awards, titles, positions, the indisputable authority of the «last Soviet intellectual». Likhachev does not even mention the awards and career of the scientist in his memoirs. “People are the most important thing in my memories, these meetings are worth living for,” he notes. Pre-revolutionary childhood, university years, Solovki, besieged Leningrad — it is very important to read the chapters about these events and the people participating in them in order to educate in oneself, in the words of academician Likhachev, “moral settledness” — “attachment to the family, to one’s home, city , country».
Hummingbird, 608 p.