For twenty-five centuries, people have been puzzling over the riddle of the ancients: what is Atlantis - myth or history? What does Plato's myth mean? In the three great clashes between the West and the East, one question is posed: who will quench the eternal thirst of humanity - Atlantis in slavery, or Europe in freedom? But for Dmitry Merezhkovsky, twenty-five centuries after Plato, these questions relate not to myth, but to history. Merezhkovsky writes about the loss of Atlantis in the 30s of the twentieth century, bit by bit collecting the most vague, dull references. And preparations for war, unreasonable European and aggressive Bolshevik policies remind him of how the Atlantic civilization once came to an end, how the mercy of the gods was replaced by anger and how Atlantis was destroyed and sank under the water.