Vladimira Ieronimovna Uborevich, the daughter of the famous army commander, ended up in an orphanage at the age of thirteen, after the execution of her father and the arrest of her mother. At twenty she herself was arrested and received five years in the camps. In 1941, her mother was also shot... Many years later, her mother’s friend Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova advised Vladimir to write down everything that her memory kept. This is how these letters to my older friend were born, intended not for publication, but to free the soul from a terrible burden. Month after month, episode after episode - an ingenuous chronicle that makes your throat tighten. As an appendix to these testimonies of childhood memory, there are the materials of the investigative cases of Vladimir, her mother and friends from the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia published for the first time.