The book includes notes and photographs from travels across Europe over the years, primarily France and Italy. Diary entries, excerpts from letters and memoirs selected by the author in 2004 cover two periods separated by a long break - 1956–1957, when A. A. Zaliznyak, as a student at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, spent a year in France, and 1988–2003. , when, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the author made regular trips to Europe, giving lectures, meeting with friends and simply traveling. Written with exceptional freedom and stylistic brilliance, the book is a fascinating read, revealing in a new way the multifaceted and attractive personality of an outstanding linguist. The publisher's design is preserved in PDF A4 format.