This is a memoir of a professor of Russian philology at Harvard University B. Arutiunova-Manusevich (b. 1916) with help of A. Mynbaeva. It covers her long and troubled life: the Great Terror in 1937, emigration to Germany and later to the USA. The author tells about her friends and colleagues: R.O. Jakobson, M.M. Karpovich, D.I. Chizhevskii, M.L. Gasparov, V.N. Toporov, M.O. Chudakova, painter G.I. Shiltian, musicians M.L. Rostropovich, V.T. Spivakov, L.E. Kogan, and others. (0.485 kg.)