The book of memoirs of the First President of the Republic of Abkhazia Vladislav Grigorievich Ardzinba (1945-2010) covers the period from 1945 to 2004. The events are presented in chronological order and in the way they were lived and felt by the author - a participant, and sometimes the creator of the modern history of Abkhazia. From the preface to the book of the editor S.I. Jergenia: "It so happened that she came out after his death: while he was in the civil service, he, alas, did not have enough time to work on his memories, and when time appeared, he did not have enough life... Despite the ailment, from day to day he uttered memories on the recorder, and then looked at this material in printed form, making the necessary adjustments, in which his assistant Anna Keropyan helped him."