About the book: 1991 / The book of the Hero of Socialist Labor, Academician D. S. Likhachev, publishes his memories of childhood, youth, and his passion for ancient Russian literature. This included the “Solovetsky Records” deciphered by Likhachev in 1989, which tells about his stay in prison during the Stalinist repressions. The recordings were released to the parents in 1930. The second section of the book consisted of the journalistic speeches of D. S. Likhachev in recent years. These are articles, interviews, conversations about painful problems of society - problems of morality and culture.