“I made your portrait. This is my portrait "

Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Photo: ITAR-TASS /Trend

Interest in the family past led Lyudmila Ulitskaya to the writing of the novel “Jacob Staircase”. But few people know that there is also a poetic version of this story - the poem “Memory of Grandfather”. Especially for us, Lyudmila Ulitskaya read him.

Content of the fourth issue:

00:29 Work with family memory - experience is often traumatic.

01:14 The most important thing is to continue the search.

1:33 Poem by Lyudmila Ulitskaya "Memory of Grandfather", written based on the life of her grandfather Yakov Ulitsky (reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya herself)

Employees of the International Memorial - Anna Margolis, Vasya Starostin, Avenue Vanyan and Maria Menshikova.