About the book: 2005 / Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino (1900–1990) - founder and permanent director of the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature for fifty years. She had a difficult but happy fate - all her life Margarita Ivanovna was engaged in a business that she knew and loved. She saw the results of her work. A.V. Rudomino, the son of Margarita Ivanovna, collected memoirs, supplemented by the memories of people who knew the library and its director, cultural figures of the 20th century. The memories are accompanied by letters, documents and photographs from the archives of the Rudomino family.