Benedict Sarnov titled his book of memoirs with a line from a poem by Boris Slutsky, in which the poet says that there was more than enough of everything in his life: he had to lack sleep, be malnourished, feel the need for the most necessary things, “but there was no boredom.” Having named his own as such book, the author outlined not only its theme and plot, but also his approach, his key to understanding and illuminating the described facts and experienced events. The beginning of the first book of memoirs by B. Sarnov can be dated back to 1937 (the author is ten years old), and its end is 1953- m (death of Stalin). In the second book, which the author is now finishing, the story will be brought to the present day.