The book “Memoirs and Stories” by Lina Voitolovskaya is a collection of documentary and artistic works of the author. It consists of three thematic sections. The first is called “Two years. About filmmakers during the war,” it is dedicated to the author’s personal memories of the famous Soviet theater and film director Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein and other equally famous film figures. The second part of the book consists of letters from Lina Voitolovskaya to her husband from the front. The third section is a collection of stories “...And all my life...”, in which the reader will find warm stories about first love and the search for one’s path in life, about loneliness and devoted friends. The romantic melancholy of memories is the leitmotif of many of the stories in the collection: the path of a person’s life, according to the author, grows into the soil of his childhood and becomes an invisible seal of the past. The book is addressed to connoisseurs of sincere and open stories; it tells about the sincerity and purity of ordinary people.