The famous philologist, author of 15 books about English literature, teacher with 75 years of experience, Nina Yakovlevna Dyakonova (1915–2013) recalls her long life, full of happiness and tragedy, her meetings with the great lawyer A.F. Koni and academicians M.P. Alekseev, V.M. Zhirmunsky, D.S. Likhachev, friendship with F.D. Vigdorova, E.G. Etkind and many other wonderful people. This book is about the asceticism of the intelligentsia, from generation to generation pulling the thread of knowledge and culture, despite any difficulties.

SPb.: Faculty of Philology and Arts of St. Petersburg State University, 2009. - 103 pp.: ill. — ISBN 978-5-8465-0928-3.