Daniil Granin is a laureate of The state prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, participant of the great Patriotic war, holder of many orders and medals, an outstanding writer of his time. His name has long been one of the symbols of the city over the Neva, once bearing the name 'Leningrad'.'Leningrad catalog' of the era of the writer's childhood, the 30s of the last century, is not a dictionary of objects of the past. This is the memory, this is our story, a quiet story about the'tender charm of antiquity'. Everyday life, manners of Leningrad, and hence many cities of that time, pictures of the city of the first five-year period, things that disappeared from everyday life, forgotten songs, the language of those years, urban history and legends resurrect the face of the Neva capital eighty years ago.Old photos and drawings complement the visual range of the book: here and white shoes with buttons, gramophone, sofa with rollers and mirror, a knife for cutting books, an oven, hand washing machine, Desk, transportation of ice for refrigerators, old magazines, forgotten fashion...the New edition of the book is timed to the 100th anniversary of the writer.The new book of the series 'Great Russia' - 'Sacred gift' - includes selected articles of the outstanding Russian writer, publicist, public figure Daniel Alexandrovich Granin. The author focuses on the phenomenon of genius, writer's talent,'sacred gift'. Literary portraits of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, L. N. Tolstoy, M. Gorky, I. A. Bunin, A. p. Chekhov, the first section, the second - articles about the Russian intelligentsia, the siege of Leningrad, St. Petersburg and its history.The publication is addressed not only to high school students, teachers of history and literature, but also to a wide range of readers.The book is published to the century of the writer.