How to find your own path in literature? Who to learn to write books from, who to imitate? Whom to re-read, who to remember? In whose footsteps should we follow, with whom should we agree, with whom should we argue? Or maybe we should just immerse ourselves in the world of our native classical Russian literature and isolate ourselves from everything else? How many times have I asked myself such questions! I shared my thoughts with my friends on my Live Journal krugo-svetov.livejournal.com, listened to their opinions, argued or agreed with them. Some of my notes on this topic were published in the Almanac “Russian Bell”, in the special issue “Club of Publicists of the Prize named after. Vladimir Gilyarovsky" in 2015. I put together notes on the topic of how to find your way in literature. This book is about this and much more.