Vasily Yanovsky entered the literature of the Russian emigration back in the thirties as the author of novels and short stories, but world fame came to him only half a century later: the memoir book “Champs Elysees,” dedicated to the Parisian, pre-war heyday of our literature, finally made a name Yanovsky is truly famous. Nabokov and Poplavsky, Georgy Ivanov and Mark Aldanov - Yanovsky came into contact with everyone in one way or another, remembered everyone - not always kindly, but always with colorful words. His novels and stories were never collected together; much remained on the pages of magazines, and the two-volume collected works of Yanovsky for the first time show all sides of the talent of this brilliant writer. The publication is provided with extensive commentary