About the book: 2014 / In 1922, when its best minds were expelled from Russia, the outstanding Russian philosopher Gustav Shpet refused to leave the country on the so-called "philosophical ship". In 1937, he paid for it with his life. His youngest daughter Marina was born in 1916. She suffered all the hardships of the era, but she remembers two decades next to her father as a holiday. A student of Husserl, a brilliant thinker, erudite and inimitable interlocutor, Shpet was friends with Andrei Bely, Kachalov, Moskvin, Baltrushaitis, Shchusev, Pilnyak, the cream of the intelligentsia gathered in the house. This book is not just a memoir, but a never-ending dialogue between a daughter and her father, who was shot when she was twenty-one. Her story goes through the life of several generations of a family, where among the ancestors were the Guchkovs, the Zilotis, the Rachmaninovs, and among the relatives were Ekaterina Maksimova and Boris Pasternak. Director Elena Yakovich, author of films about Joseph Brodsky, Vasily Grossman, Sergei Dovlatov, created this book based on her film “The Daughter of the Philosopher Shpet” and a thirty-hour recording of conversations with 96-year-old Marina Gustavovna Shtorkh, whose amazing memory and rich archive of letters and photographs were preserved in details of this unique part of the history of the twentieth century.