Nadezhda Nikolaevna Bromley is known primarily as a director and playwright, although back in the 1910s she made her debut in literature as a poet close to the St. Petersburg futurists. At the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, she began to experiment with prose, but these experiments were first booed by critics and then completely forgotten. However, according to Elena D. Tolstaya, it is undeserved: her keen eye and keen ear, expressive language and brutal wit allow us to consider Nadezhda Bromley a serious prose writer. Her delightful fantasy and historical novels are always about revolution - be it the French Revolution, a rebellion of the elements, or a revolt of the angels. The free spirit that breathes through Bromley's prose is partly the reason for such a difficult reception, but it is precisely this that makes the return to her forgotten works so relevant. Elena Tolstoy's monograph on the work of N. N. Bromley occupies the first part of the book; the second includes articles by the author dedicated to other bright heroes of the era from Marc Chagall and Yevgeny Vakhtangov to Maximilian Voloshin and Vladimir Nabokov. Elena D. Tolstaya is a literary critic, writer, professor at the University of Jerusalem, author of monographs on Anton Chekhov and Alexei Tolstoy, as well as a series of articles on Andrei Platonov.