Several generations of the Lagerlf family owned Morbacca, where the girl Selma was born, survived a serious illness, learned to walk again. Here she listened to the endless stories of her grandmother, met with different, sometimes wonderful, people, watched as her father and mother build their lives, estates and its inhabitants, here began the Christian way of Lagerlf. Selma became a writer and was always grateful for this Morbakke . Lagerlf’s most celebrated book, Nils Holgersson’s Miraculous Journey with Wild Goose in Sweden, grew out of Selma’s childhood memories and experiences. In 1890, after the death of his beloved father, the estate was sold for debts. For Selma, it was a tragedy, and she fought desperately for eighteen years for the opportunity to regain her home. As soon as literary earnings and the Nobel Prize allowed, she bought Morbacca, settled here and immediately took up her childhood memories. The first part of the memoirs was published in 1922, but they are translated into Russian for the first time.