'Memory memory' Maria Stepanova is an attempt to write the history of her own family, instantly coming to the question of the very possibility of preserving the memory of the past, an analysis of the family archive, which turns into an overview of the ways of life of the past in the present, and the history of the main events of the XX century, how it can exist in the personal memory of a modern person. People and their traces disappear, things are deprived of their purpose, and testimonies speak in dead languages describing and discarding various intermediaries between themselves and big history, the author of "Memory of Memory" remains and leaves us alone with our past. 5th edition, revised.