My sorrow is bright…

Lidia Vladimirovna Savelieva (1937-2021) - great-great-great-granddaughter of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Doctor of Philological Sciences. In her memoirs, she recounts her childhood and growing up in Ukraine, where the family moved in 1939, and her student years at Leningrad University. Remembering... the occupation of Poltava by German troops, the school years after the war, or the university lectures of famous scholars, Lidia Vladimirovna pays great attention to the details that help the reader better understand the historical context. An important place in the memoirs is occupied by the author's reflection on her personal relationships with classical literature, and Savelieva's fate itself becomes a vivid example of the cultural closeness and unbreakable connection between the Russian and Ukrainian peoples.