The review of the publication of two volumes of Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam’s memoirs became primarily a study of her personality, literary gift and place in Russian literature of the 20th century. “Nadezhda Yakovlevna for me is Nadezhda Yakovlevna: firstly, the poet’s “beggar friend”, who divided him life with all its glory and misfortune; secondly, the author of books, the exceptional significance of which for our orientation in historical time I am convinced...”