The book is conceived as a documentary story, a political thriller, based on family documents, the archive of the FSB of Russia, the memoirs of contemporaries, including both victims of repression and their perpetrators. This is the first and most detailed biography of an outstanding public figure of the USSR, which was not written for that , to please any party, and with the sole purpose of telling the truth about a man and his time. Because the time has come to tell about it. Many of the facts given in the book have never been published before. This is a book about the dramatic, tragic fate of the entire family of Alexander Kosarev, about repressions against his relatives, about the undeserved punishment of his wife, and then his daughter, survivors of a long exile in the Far North, “Remember Me Alive” is a book designed for the mass reader. It will be of interest both to historians studying the 30s in the USSR, to school teachers, and to people of different ages who are interested in the true, human destiny of our country, as well as to young people. Who saw the heroes of those years only in paintings or in films.