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The memoirs of the prominent Ukrainian woman historian Natalia Polonska-Vasylenko had a remarkable fate: she began writing them when she went into exile, immediately after the war, and completed them to more than a thousand pages, covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Excerpts were published in various diaspora publications, and the typewritten version of the memoirs was lost so that she could not return it herself. Meanwhile, by a stroke of luck, the earliest part of the memoirs, completed before the revolution, was found in a paper dump in Munich. Thus, the compiler of this book set about resurrecting the lost part of the memoirs by collecting what was scattered in periodicals. Not everything, of course, was found, but the result of the search was significant, and now for the first time it is to come to the reader as a book. It can be said that in terms of its scope and breadth of information, often little-known or even unknown, this is one of the best memoir books that Ukrainian literature has ever known. Accordingly, it cannot but arouse the reader's intense interest.