| First recollections | p. 1 |
| The North-West direction | p. 2 |
| Vera Stepanovna Arnold (Zhitkova) | p. 4 |
| First scientific recollections | p. 9 |
| The Arnold family | p. 11 |
| Home library | p. 23 |
| The axiomatic method | p. 25 |
| School years | p. 27 |
| The color of a meridian | p. 30 |
| It is difficult to keep a secret | p. 31 |
| The temple of science | p. 34 |
| The state exam on the principles of Marxism-Leninism | p. 37 |
| Who did what | p. 39 |
| Lavoisier and French mathematics during the Revolution | p. 40 |
| Queen Eleanor, Rosamund, and labyrinth theory | p. 43 |
| Place des Vosges | p. 48 |
| Champel Zee | p. 52 |
| Neutrinos, neutrons, and Bruno Pontecorvo | p. 54 |
| How to distinguish good and bad mathematical works | p. 57 |
| Plutarch's combinatorics | p. 59 |
| The topology of surfaces according to Alexander of Macedonia | p. 61 |
| Hunting for snakes | p. 62 |
| The guillotine and Marie-Antoinette | p. 63 |
| The torments of Damiens | p. 67 |
| Queen Margot and the kingdom of legality | p. 68 |
| Joan of Arc - a saint and a witch | p. 70 |
| Ravailliac, French cuisine, and traffic jams | p. 73 |
| Anna Yaroslavna | p. 75 |
| Gennady of Novgorod and education of youth under Ivan III | p. 78 |
| Catherine I and the Prut campaign | p. 79 |
| Catherine II and I. I. Betskoy | p. 82 |
| The Crimean war | p. 84 |
| Dashkova and parachutes | p. 85 |
| Profanation of a sacred object and abstract algebra | p. 87 |
| Caesar and Gauls : the defence of Rome from the Germans | p. 89 |
| France - Guinea - India | p. 90 |
| Tamil tigers in the Swiss consulate in Paris | p. 91 |
| A planning department | p. 92 |
| Mountain lions over Stanford | p. 95 |
| Hong Kong | p. 97 |
| Brazil trips | p. 99 |
| Leibniz as a precursor of Bourbaki | p. 101 |
| The origins of mathematics : from Egypt to Greece | p. 104 |
| The motivation for teaching mathematics in Israel | p. 109 |
| The struggle with foreigners and their languages | p. 111 |
| "Our Manchuria" | p. 112 |
| From the history of the French economy | p. 113 |
| Ramanujan and Hardy | p. 114 |
| Picking up cranberries | p. 119 |
| Tomography of the brain, geometry, and algebra | p. 122 |
| Inedible hares | p. 124 |
| How academicians were elected and how they were eliminated | p. 124 |
| Weierstrass and Sophia Kovalevskaya | p. 130 |
| Radischev | p. 137 |
| Mandate ("Nakaz") of Catherine II | p. 142 |
| Religion and science, Luther and anti-Semitism | p. 145 |
| Galileo | p. 148 |
| "Mistral" in the "Crown" | p. 154 |
| Abel's theory and modern mathematics | p. 158 |
| From Pareto to Arzamas | p. 163 |
| Whether the moon will fall onto the Earth or not? | p. 168 |
| The pike of Cambridge | p. 172 |
| Pon'goma river and Solovki | p. 173 |
| The Suputinsky nature reserve | p. 176 |
| The Yamal peninsula and grubbing snow caves | p. 182 |
| The Pocha river and a dog named Shnura | p. 185 |
| Aksin'ino cemetery | p. 188 |
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