Contents -- Preface -- 1. MANDELSTAM, Leonid Isaakovich (1879-1944) -- 1.1 Progenitor -- 2. TAMM, Igor Evgen'evich (1895-1971) -- 2.1 Tamm in Life -- 2.2 A Life of a Russian Intelligent -- 2.3 I.E. Tamm and the Formation of Domestic Physics -- 3. SAKHAROV, Andrei Dmitrievich (1921-1989) -- 3.1 For a Future Historian1 -- 3.2 The Years of 1945-1950 -- 3.3 A Return to "Pure" Science and the Beginning of Social Activity -- 3.4 A Return to FIAN -- 3.5 A Hunt -- 3.6 Arrest and Exile to Gorky -- 3.7 Trips to Gorky -- 3.8 Hunger Strikes -- 3.9 A Release -- 3.10 Addendum -- 3.10.1 Letters and telegrams of Gorky period -- 4. VAVILOV, Sergei Ivanovich (1891-1951) -- 4.1 Nine Scars on the Heart1 -- 4.2 Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov and His Time -- 4.3 Vavilov and Vavilov's FIAN -- 4.4 What Gave Birth to the Vavilovs? -- 5. LEONTOVICH, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1903-1981) -- 5.1 Mosaic -- 5.1.1 The first meeting -- 5.1.2 The war -- 5.1.3 The 'character' -- 5.1.4 Second scientific life -- 6. MINTZ, Aleksandr L'vovich (1895-1974) -- 6.1 Aleksandr L'vovich Tells -- 6.2 Addendum. Memoirs of V.D. Konen, 'Personality of a Scientist' -- 7. BOHR, Niels Hendrick David (1885-1962) -- 7.1 Bohr. Moscow. 1961 -- 7.2 Addendum: Physicists and Philosophers -- 8. HEISENBERG, Werner Karl (1901-1976) -- 8.1 Tragedy of Heisenberg -- 8.2 Bohr and Heisenberg -- 8.3 Heisenberg and Science During Nazi Times -- 8.4 Heisenberg and Western Physicists -- 8.5 Tragedies of the Epoch -- 8.6 Why Hitler Did Not Get an Atomic Bomb -- 9. What Brought Hitler to Power? And Who? -- 10. LANDAU, Lev Davidovich (1908-1968) -- 10.1 Landau and Others: '. . . Verklaerungen und Neubegruendungen -- 10.2 Two Landaus -- 10.2.1 Landau, Kapitza and Stalin -- 10.3 Catastrophy -- Bibliography.