Highly valued by his contemporaries, Karl Karlovich Gershelman (1899–1951), a Russian emigrant who lived in Estonia and Germany, is almost unknown to the reader of the day. Meanwhile, he was a multi-talented man - a writer and artist, who successfully acted as a poet, prose writer, playwright, critic, author of philosophical essays, graphic artist and watercolorist. In the book that you are holding in your hands, for the first time, poems, miniatures, stories, plays, essays, literary-critical and historical-literary articles by K. K. Gershelman are collected under one binding, as previously published on the pages of newspapers and magazines that have long become rarities, and still unpublished (printed from autographs stored in the writer’s archive).