The House on the Old Square

And the son "answered for the father" – wrote comments, personal and historical-sociological, to these memoirs. Pre-war childhood, wartime adolescence, post-war youth. The circumstances of the arrests that happened and did not happen. Love for a Jewish woman, the daughter of an enemy of the people, who became a wife during the era of the fight against "cosmopolitans." The career of a party worker. A series of Soviet politicians passing through the narrative, like through the corridors of the building of the Central Committee on the Old Square... And portraits of close friends from the Soviet middle class, who experienced war and thaw, stagnation, and perestroika, who accepted the new times or did not come to terms with them. This book is both an attempt to understand the Soviet Atlantis, sunk but still sending signals from beneath the heavy waters of history, and a belated conversation between a son and a father about what was most important in the lives of several generations.