"Memorial" is a community of public organizations working on human rights and the history of victims of Soviet repression. At the time when the Nobel Committee awarded "Memorial" the peace prize, Boris Belenkin was in Moscow in the courthouse and was the defendant in a lawsuit filed by the prosecutor's office, which had seized the society's premises.
This book is not the history of Memorial, but the story of a man, Boris Belenkin, a long-time employee of Memorial and its permanent librarian. The pages of the publication tell the story of his bright fate, which, full of funny and sad things, brought Boris to Memorial and never let him go.
