The book of academician A. N. Krylov's "My Memories" has been published since 1942 four times. The most complete in content "Memories" were published in 1951 and included in the first part of the first volume of the Collected Works of Academician A. N. Krylova . In this regard, the use of them as a separate book is difficult, besides the Collection of works was released in a small print run and is currently inaccessible to readers. Published in 1956 by the Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, “Memories and Essays” have also become a bibliographic rarity. Edition of “Memories” in 1963, in connection with the centenary of the birth of A. N. Krylova, aims to enable a wide range of readers to get acquainted with this valuable book . The basis of the new edition is the lifetime edition of 1945, the plan of which was approved by Alexei Nikolaevich shortly before his death. Additionally: Alexey Nikolaevich Krylov - admiral, shipbuilder, academician - was a personality more than legendary ! And he saw so much that he saw enough for a dozen other lives. But he was still able to talk about it like that .... for example, about how Admiral Nikolai Ottovich von Essen "in deck expressions" explained to high-ranking officials why nothing would come of their ideas...... Say. Alexei Nikolaevich was a multifaceted personality - it means nothing to say: let us recall at least a textbook on the numerical methods of Kalitkin and Krylov, according to which we all studied... And yet the main direction of his activity was the protection of Russia from enemies .. But the main deputies were not only and not so much foreign fleets as our officials, countless Duma committees and commissions. And with them A. N. Krylov, who owned a deck lexicon no worse than von Essen, figured out how it fit the admiral - fun and fun! ... But what to say about Krylov? Isn't it better to read it yourself?