“I will talk about individual people, about various cities, interspersing what my thinkers remember about the past” - this is how I. G. Ehrenburg (1891 - 1967) defined the idea of creating his memoirs, which were published in the early 60s. The famous memoirs “People, Years, Life” by Ilya Ehrenburg is one of the cult books of the mid-twentieth century. First published 1960-1965. on the pages of The New World, she played an exceptional role in shaping the generation of the sixties; it was from it that readers first learned about many pages of our history. Volume 1 includes the first three books of memoirs, covering events from the end of the 19th century to 1933, stories about meetings with B. Savinkov and L. Trotsky, about young P. Picasso and A. Modigliani, portraits of M. Voloshin, A. Bely, B. Pasternak, A. Remizov, a story about the tragic fates of M. Tsvetaeva, V. Mayakovsky, O. Mandelstam, I. Babel. Comments on the memoirs allow us to better understand the author’s reticence and his hints, forced by censorship. The book is illustrated with numerous unique photographs. Volume 2 of I. Ehrenburg’s memoirs “People, Years, Life” includes the fourth and fifth books, dedicated to the years 1933–1945, as well as comments containing many historical documents and evidence, rare photographs. In the fourth book, Ehrenburg described what he saw personally: pre-war Europe, the war in Spain, meetings with I. Ilf and E. Petrov, A. Gide, R. Falk, E. Hemingway and M. Koltsov, the trial of N. Bukharin, fall of Paris in 1940. The fifth book is entirely devoted to the events of the Patriotic War of 1941–1945 and Ehrenburg’s anti-fascist work. Stories about front-line trips, meetings with military leaders K. Rokossovsky, L. Govorov, I. Chernyakhovsky, General A. Vlasov, diplomats, foreign journalists, writers and artists, about the creation of the “Black Book” about the Holocaust banned by Stalin. Published in the main languages of the world, I. Ehrenburg’s memoirs provide the broadest panorama of the twentieth century. Volume 3 includes the sixth and seventh books of I. Ehrenburg’s memoirs “People, Years, Life.” The sixth book covers the events of 1945–1953. Post-war Moscow, travel with K. Simonov across America, the Nuremberg trials, the murder of S. Mikhoels and the fight against “cosmopolitans”; portraits of A. Einstein and F. Joliot-Curie, A. Matisse and P. Eluard, A. Fadeev and N. Hikmet. The book ends with the death of Stalin, which opened up the possibility of saving changes in the country. The seventh book is dedicated to the era of Khrushchev's Thaw and the hopes that it gave rise to. The 20th Congress, which exposed Stalin’s crimes, events in Hungary, travels to India, Japan, Greece and Armenia, portraits of E. Schwartz, R. Vaillant and M. Chagall. “After a very long life, I don’t want to say what I don’t think, and silence in some cases is worse than an outright lie,” Ehrenburg wrote to A.T. Tvardovsky, defending his understanding of what he had lived.