The third volume of Lydia Chukovskaya's Notes covers three years: from January 1963 to March 5, 1966, the day of Anna Akhmatova's death. These are the years when the Khrushchev thaw ended and ended, the years of the Stalinist counter-offensive. Anna Akhmatova’s attempts to publish “Requiem” and “Poem without a Hero” failed. Lydia Chukovskaya fails when trying to publish her story “Sofya Petrovna”. The poet Joseph Brodsky is arrested, tried and exiled... Many pages of this book are devoted to troubles about him. Chukovskaya helps Akhmatova compile her collection “The Running of Time”, writes down her stories about her triumphant last trips to Italy and England. The appendix contains documents from the archive of Lydia Chukovskaya, her diary “After the End”, her article about Akhmatova “Naked Arithmetic”, etc.