In this book is the most complete text of the famous memoirs of Nikolai Ivanovich Grech (1787-1867) – journalist and publisher, writer and philologist, corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
“Several times I was going to write notes about what I saw and heard in my life … I got two times, but I had no strength to continue … Now I think that this indecision came from the feelings of my youth at that time: the impressions were fresh, but not deep; the opinions are decisive, but one -sided; the experience with his hard hand has not yet suppressed the souls of vague and reliability; Many of the essentials of my biographical drama were alive: one should write portraits, not memories; I would have to shake the hand of another, and after half an hour to press it all, not to my heart … I resume for the sixty -second year of life uneasy for the thirty -fourth … ”
This publication contains the memoirs of N.I. Grech “Notes about my life” …
Author
Greek Nikolai Ivanovich
Editor
Zakharov Igor Valerievich
Publisher
Zakharov, 2002
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