In this book, Yuri Gert, with the help of documents, memoirs, newspaper publications, archival materials, his own life experience and the examples of friends, relatives, and not only them, but also the example of the whole country, tries to answer the question: “How does History happen? , how it affects individuals, families, residents of individual cities and an entire state, who happen to live in an era of global changes - both happy and tragic, and see the change of eras, revolutions, wars - burst into the everyday life of a person, in which all this is happening - that same kaleidoscope of events called life."