In surveying a rather long period of life and analyzing my work as a teacher of history, I should like to single out the principal moments in my growth as a teacher, from my beginnings as a public school teacher in tsarist Russia to becoming a faculty member in a Soviet teachers college, spanning a period of sixty years. In the complexity of my personal recollections, it is not easy to single out the most important things I have experienced and thought out that would be of publicly significant interest to the reader.