“Why am I going to write down now my memories of the late Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev? Do I have any memories worth reporting? Have we worked on anything together? - Never. How often have we met? - No, very rarely. Did we have significant conversations? “There was one, but this conversation had very little to do with both of us and had a tragicomic ending, and perhaps just a vaudeville one, so I don’t want to remember it...”