Several generations of the Lagerlöf family owned Morbakka, where the girl Selma was born, survived a serious illness, and learned to walk again. Here she listened to her grandmother’s endless stories, met different, sometimes wonderful, people, watched how her father and mother built their lives, the estate and its inhabitants, here Lagerlöf’s Christian path began. Selma became a writer and was always grateful to Morbakka for this. Lagerlöf's most celebrated book, Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Wild Geese Journey through Sweden, grew largely out of Selma's childhood memories and experiences. In 1890, after the death of his beloved father, the estate was sold for debts. For Selma, this was a tragedy, and she fought desperately for eighteen years to regain her home. As soon as her literary earnings and the Nobel Prize allowed, she bought Morbakka, settled here and immediately set about her childhood memories. The first part of the memoirs was published in 1922, but they are being translated into Russian for the first time.