Daniil Granin. Keeper of Time

In the nearly century-long biography of the writer, publicist, and public figure Daniil Granin, many events are encompassed - the first five-year plans and the Great Patriotic War, the Khrushchev thaw and Gorbachev's perestroika, the debates between "physicists" and "lyricists", the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the difficult birth of a new Russia. Daniil Alexandrovich was able to comprehend, feel, and embody all of this in his works. Whatever he wrote about - the life and work of scientists, the tragic years of war and siege he endured, or the distant past - the issues of morality, the moral choices facing each individual always remained at the center of his attention. He himself made this choice more than once, advocating for justice and compassion, for preserving the historical identity of his native Leningrad-St. Petersburg. The first book about Granin in the "Life of Remarkable People" series is published for the writer's 100th anniversary and is composed of his own recollections (he referred to them as "quirks of memory"), documents, and testimonies from contemporaries.