Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences V. FRIDKIN. From his very first publications, Vladimir Mikhailovich Fridkin pursues not only a purely scientific goal: to make archival foreign documents unknown in Russia available to the general public (see “Science and Life” No. 8, 1981 .; No. 12, 1983; No. 12, 1987; No. 10, 1996; He immediately finds a very true, lively intonation. Thanks to this, numbers, dates, dry lines of notes in business papers become events for readers that are directly related to our time. This was noted by the historian N. Eidelman: “The 19th century suddenly appeared as a phantom between car enthusiasts, physics congresses, color photographs; it appeared and disappeared, leaving us at the end of the 20th century to reflect on the “connection of times.” And then Vladimir Mikhailovich began to write lyrical notes about the days not so distant, and again, every time it was important for him to highlight what remains important to this day. “Notes of the Attached” are in the same series. With a great sense of humor, the author notices everything that defines the recent past. , the tragic and the funny appear before us in an inseparable whole, which, in fact, is life itself. Published in the journal “Science and Life”, No. 10, 1999 and “Znamya”, No. 6, 2005