Memoirs of Natalya Reshetovskaya, the first wife of A.I. Solzhenitsyn, cover the period of their long divorce proceedings (1970-1973) right up to the expulsion of the writer from the USSR in 1974. The first book of memoirs by N. Reshetovskaya, “In a Dispute with Time,” although it was officially published in the USSR in 1975 (with the active patronage of the News Press Agency and the KGB of the USSR), was nevertheless intended for Western readers and practically not within the country. was distributed. The book “Rupture” offered to your attention was prepared by Reshetovskaya in 1991 and published in the provincial Irkutsk publishing house after the collapse of the USSR without any censorship editing. In many ways, naive as a woman, in places even hysterical, Natalya Reshetovskaya introduces this book into a correspondence polemic with Solzhenitsyn and his memoirs “A Calf Butted an Oak Tree.”