Vladislav Khodasevich (1886–1939) is a special figure in Russian literature. During his lifetime, he did not take his rightful place in Russian poetry, for he was, in the words of Nina Berberova, “a poet without his generation.” And although over time it became clear that Khodasevich was a strong link in the tradition originating from Pushkin, “poetic loneliness” left its mark on his talent and, perhaps, became one of the reasons that in the last decade of his life he did not write at all poems. But at the same time, Khodasevich became a leading literary critic of the Russian diaspora and in his memoirs spoke about his era in a way that no one else could. And so we see how hungry writers, the flower of Russian literature, sort through pieces of paper in the Bolshevik offices for the sake of rations, how Akhmatova, who suddenly received half a pound of herring, tries to sell it on the market, how she is in doubt whether or not to return to Russia, Gorky, as one from the muses of the Silver Age, Marietta Shaginyan intrigues in order to evict the widow of the just executed Gumilyov from the House of Arts and move her relatives into her rooms... Recognizing only the truth, striving for documentary accuracy and at the same time a brilliant stylist, subtle, ironic in many ways - such Khodasevich appears in his memoirs.