Mayatnik zhizni moey... 1930–1954

Varvara Grigor'evna Malahieva-Mirovich prozhila dolguyu zhizn' i smenila mnogo zanyatiy: byla ona i vostorzhennoy revolyucionerkoy, i guvernantkoy v bogatyh domah, poetom, redaktorom, teatral'nym kritikom, perevodchikom. Ee "Dnevnik", kotoryy ona vela s 1930 po 1954 god, s oglyadkoy na "Opavshie list'ya" Rozanova, na "Dnevnik" Tolstogo, stal nastoyaschey epicheskoy freskoy. Portrety dorogih ee serdcu druzey i "soputnikov" - L'va Shestova, Daniila Andreeva, Ally Tarasovoy, Anatoliya Lunacharskogo, Alekseya Remizova, Natal'i Shahovskoy, Vladimira Favorskogo vmeste s "bezvestnymi muchenikami istorii" pisalis' na fone Grazhdanskoy i Otechestvennoy voyn, Moskvy 30-50-h. Skitayas' po moskovskim uglam, ona lyubila, razocharovyvalas', vospityvala detey svoih druzey, stradala i molilas' za blizkih, ischezayuschih v tyuremnyh norah. Zapisyvala ih istorii, svoyu istoriyu, itog zhizni – "o prehodyaschem i vechnom".