Works of different genres that embrace the basic circle of interests and meditations of author are collected in this book. His "Remembrances" are sanctified to the light and bitter pages of our history, life of Russian intelligentsia suffering in the Civil war-time, in the Solovki camps, in blockade Leningrad, but standing on end and continuing to resist to spiritual violence of society. A long ago полюбившиеся to the reader of "Letter about kind and wonderful" invite поразмышлять together with an author about Russia, her cultural riches, written language, language, remarkable traditions. And the articles of collection "Literature is reality is literature" help deeper to understand the Russian classics.Reading book Д. С. Лихачева, talk with a wise man, whose ideas and supervisions compel to be thoughtful above motion of own life and to change something in her to the best.