A memoir by one of the most important literary historians and cultural commentators in modern Russian history, Dmitry S. Likhachev, who died in late 1999. Likhachev portrays his life from his
childhood years in St. Petersburg and the experiences at Leningrad University which led to his imprisonment to his later years in post-war Russia and his eventual return visit to the infamous
Solovki, where he was brutally imprisoned during the early Stalin years. First published in Russian by Logos, St. Petersburg, 1995. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
