About the outstanding figure of the Communist Party and the Soviet state, one of the closest associates of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov, many interesting books have been written. Of particular value among them are the memoirs of his wife - Klavdia Timofeevna Sverdlova (Novgorodtseva). Written vividly, brightly, fascinatingly, they reveal to us the biography of this wonderful revolutionary, who, according to V.I. Lenin, had the opportunity to "express more fully and more completely than anyone else, the most important and most essential features of the proletarian revolution..."