The history of the people is embodied in the lives of individual families. Russia is a fundamentally peasant country. The pedigree of families with peasant roots is no less interesting than the noble one. This is confirmed by the book “Peace and War in the Life of Our Family,” written by Georgy Georgievich Zubkov, Vera Petrovna Zubkova (nee Rykova) and their daughters Nina and Lyudmila. The book recreates the contradictory and the difficult fate of three generations. In the pre-war years, family members were not only active builders of new relations in the countryside during collectivization, industrialization and the cultural revolution, but also unjust victims of dispossession and repression due to slanderous denunciations. During the Great Patriotic War, all four became prisoners of fascism from June 22, 1941 to March 8, 1945 and miraculously did not die not only in fascist dungeons, but also on the way to their homeland. In the post-war period, right up to the present day, we had to endure all the hardships of both the quickly overcome post-war devastation and monstrous destruction The Soviet Union, which is still dragging on. This book will be read with interest by everyone who wants to understand the history of their country and their people - from schoolchildren and students to middle-aged and older people.