Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky is a unique phenomenon in the history of Russian culture. His life was so rich in events and adventures, and his personality was so attractive that even during his lifetime he became a legendary figure. One of the most famous reporters of his time, a talented fiction writer, poet, he also left amazing books of memoirs, which have long become classics of the memoir genre. In “My Wanderings” - and Gilyarovsky called this book “his most beloved” - young people are described with extraordinary vividness and spontaneity years of the future writer, who by the age of thirty had worked as a barge hauler, a hooker, a worker, a herd driver, an actor, a soldier, and a reporter.