The purpose of this volume is to present to the reader as fully as possible the work of Kuzmin the critic. In addition to the well-known •Conventions•, the book for the first time collects the vast majority of his critical texts that appeared in periodicals and various publications of the 1900s - 1930s rr.: these are articles, essays, reviews, prefaces and reviews that illuminate the image in a new way the author himself and characterizing the literary, artistic and theatrical life of Russia in the first third of the twentieth century.