Before you, reader, is another and special book by Igor Yakovlevich Froyanov. The eminent scientist, Russian historian (eminent in Russia and abroad) first addresses us as a publicist. The historical memory that historians "serve" is journalistic - it lives in concepts and images. And yet this is the first book by I.Ya. Froyanova, which is the result of his many years of journalistic work: articles, essays, reviews, interviews in newspapers and magazines, radio and television conversations.