Book V.A. Slobodchikova acquaints the reader with the vicissitudes of the fate of a man born in 1913 in Russia, in a noble family and having gone through the trials of 20 years of emigration in Harbin and Shanghai. Having passed through the basements of the Lubyanka and Butyrka prison, the memoirist who found his homeland became a prominent figure in the Soviet and Russian enlightenment - a researcher and author of school textbooks of the French language. Memoirs of V.A. Slobodchikov covers almost a century and is a multifaceted historical document in which there is life in its entirety and reality - without fictitious names and facts.