The collection of works by Nina Aleksandrovna Dmitrieva (1917–2003), an outstanding Russian art critic, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, includes articles, memoirs and journalistic texts that most clearly characterize the author’s research and literary talent. The key problems of the theory and history of artistic culture are revealed in them through the prism of the creative searches of the greatest masters of foreign and Russian art. Free from methodological dogmas and templates, her interpretations of works of art will find a lively response from a wide range of readers.