This book publishes an important part of the literary heritage of the outstanding Russian-Israeli poet Mikhail Gendelev (1950–2009), accompanied by real, textual and intertextual commentary. Along with previously unpublished or little-known lyric poems, the reader will find here a poem, lyrics, comic poems and poems for the occasion, an extensive block of translations and adaptations, selected prose (memoir essays, feuilletons, journalism, literary critical essays), and in addition to Gendelev’s own works - a series of articles devoted to various aspects of his poetics and textual analysis of his manuscripts.