The last book of the outstanding Russian writer Vladimir Sharov (04/07/1952—08/17/2018) was compiled and completed by him during the break between two attacks of the disease. It is dedicated to those people and places, those ideas and books that influenced him in his youth and are imprinted forever. The book is not a simple collection of thirteen heterogeneous essays: it is given an autobiographical confession by the author’s comments, which make it a single whole and which were written specifically for this edition. Part of what was collected in it was published, some essays are published for the first time. We have kept the sequence suggested by the author. And the facts are presented exactly as he remembered and wrote them.