Maria Mikhailovna Levis (1890–1991), born into an intelligent Jewish family in St. Petersburg, who received a historical education at the Bestuzhev courses, is a witness and participant in many upheavals and events of the 20th century: from the First Russian Revolution of 1905 to the repressions of the 1930s and the blockade of Leningrad. However, the “extraordinary era,” as Maria Mikhailovna herself called it, is not only wars and, perhaps, not so much as they are peace, and with it travel, friendship, meetings with those whose names are well known today (G. Bonch-Osmolovsky , V. Shukhaev, I. Severyanin, A. Blok, S. Marshak).Written without pretense, as all personal diaries and letters are written, addressed primarily to loved ones, these memoirs are full of the amazing energy of the life-loving nature of the narrator, who did not just accept everything that neither sends her a century, but as if she was acting towards it all.