The  publication is devoted to the  family of the  poet and  translator Benedict Konstantinovich Livshits  (1886–1938) and  their fates  after his  death. His  wife Ekaterina  Konstantinovna  (1902– 1987) was arrested in 1940, while  their son Kirill Venedictovich (1925–1942) was left in the  care  of a family friend, A. M. Shadrin, and  later volunteered for the  front; he was killed on October 18,  1942 at Stalingrad and  buried at Mamaev Kurgan. The letters and  official documents that contain these facts are reproduced from the  originals kept at the  collection of Ekaterina Livshits in  the  Manuscripts department of the  Russian National Library.