Memoirs of a famous scientist, teacher at Leningrad University, professor, Doctor of Chemical Sciences Tatyana Alekseevna Favorskaya (1890–1986) are a living chronicle of a remarkable Russian family, which reflected different eras of Russian history from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. The fate of the Favorsky family is inextricably linked with the history of St. Petersburg University. The central figure of the story is the father of T. A. Favorskaya - the famous chemist, academician, professor at St. Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad) University Alexey Evgrafovich Favorsky (1860–1945), who was included in the pantheon of outstanding Russian chemists. Notes about the personal lives of teachers and their devoted students and followers, descriptions of everyday life in evacuation, chronicles of peaceful dacha life - all this is the most valuable evidence of a history that is rarely written about in textbooks, but which is very important for each of us, for the history of culture and science Russia. For a wide range of readers interested in the history of Russia and Russian science.