This edition is a reprint of the historical almanac "Past," published by the Paris publishing house "Atheneum." Its purpose is the introduction into the scientific and public circulation of previously unknown materials on Russian history, especially the history of the 20th century. The reader is offered numerous eyewitness accounts, diaries, memoirs, notes, the epistolary heritage of figures of domestic culture and public life from Soviet and foreign archives, private collections, family collections.