"Memoirs" by A. N. Benoit teach us love for our country, for our city, for our family and its traditions. A.N. Benoit is proud of his belonging to St. Petersburg and its culture. The pan-European ties of the Benoit family have now acquired special attractiveness, as all the features of the European education of the Russian intelligentsia of the 19th and 20th centuries have become attractive. "Memories" by A. N. Benoit is a good book. If we begin to perceive it as a whole, then we will clearly feel that Benoit, with sympathy, as a native, treats the life around him and the work of his contemporaries: regardless of whether he agreed with them or not. And this constitutes the moral atmosphere that the modern environment of the "creative intelligentsia," often torn by enmity and mutual hostility, so needs. The books have numerous coloured and black and white illustrations.