Book 1. Notes of a mother of many children. On the website Proza.ru A.P. Kolotov published the memoirs of his mother Anastasia Nikolaevna Kolotova. They reflect the problems and difficulties of raising children in a large family at 60 -70 years of the last century in an ordinary Russian outback. How did a woman, a teacher who sacredly believed in the ideals of communism, live? Endless family troubles, life problems, misunderstanding and denial of the people around her, the fight against vices corroding society and the country... The result of her life - notebooks, yellowed by time, kept by their sons. The pain of her life is the loneliness that came at the end of her years... The tragedy of her life - faith in a bright communist future remained just a dream, turned to dust...