Romanticism in Russian literature, contrary to the theses of the school curriculum, is a phenomenon that is not at all limited to artistic experiences of the early 19th century. Michael Weiskopf, an Israeli Slavist and author of the study “The Demiurge in Love,” which served as the final impetus for this book, sees in romance the enduring foundation of Russian culture, its disastrous and at the same time life-giving metaphysical experience. His new book covers a century-long period from the end of the Romantic Golden Age in the 1840s to the 1940s, when the catastrophes of the 20th century cut short the lives and literary fortunes of the last Russian romantics, ranging from Bulgakov to Mandelstam. The first part of the work is focused on the analysis of the literary situation of the first half of the 19th century, the second is devoted to the work of Afanasy Fet, the third studies various modifications of romanticism in the pre-Soviet and Soviet years, and the fourth offers a new look at the pre-war work of Vladimir Nabokov. The appendix to the book is “The Lost Letter” - seven short stories and stylizations written by the author.