The novel-saga "The Last" He tells about the fate of a German family from St. Petersburg, caught in the midst of the dramatic events of the 20th century. Based on real events, the novel spans almost a century and connects such different points on the map of Europe as St. Petersburg, the Northern Urals, Dusseldorf and Paris. At the center of the story is a family divided by the 1917 Revolution. One of the brothers ended up in exile in the West, while the others scattered across the Soviet Union. The first meeting of the two brothers decades later took place only in 1978 – and ended in tragedy. And in 2000, the story took another turn: their children met. But the attempt to make sense of the past, to speak out what had been hushed up for a long time, turned out to be painful and unanswered. Lyubov Sokolova shows how political disasters become family traumas, and silence is a time bomb passed down from generation to generation. The novel raises acute issues of guilt, memory, and historical responsibility, which are especially relevant in our time. The author gives the characters not only documentary authenticity, but also a living voice of the era. The book actively uses folklore, legends and anecdotes, which in the conditions of censorship were the most important form of collective memory and reaction to injustice. This phrase sounds like an epigraph to the whole book. "The Last Ones" is not just a family chronicle. It is the voice of an era told from the inside, without embellishment or illusions. It is a literary bridge between the past and the present, memory and the future.