The life of the remarkable Russian thinker, philosopher, writer V.V. Rozanov, erased from cultural circulation for many years, is presented for the first time in the published memoirs of his daughter, Tatyana Vasilievna Rozanova (1895–1975). From the book the reader learns a lot about the early years of V. V. Rozanov’s life, read excerpts from an unpublished youth diary, learn about the writer’s unsuccessful marriage to A. P. Suslova - “the infernal lyre and buffet of F. M. Dostoevsky.” Particularly valuable is the picture of the Rozanov family life and the tense atmosphere of the St. Petersburg life, about meetings of V.V. Rozanov with famous contemporaries - D.S. Merezhkovsky, 3. N. Gippius, N.A. Berdyaev, P.A. Florensky, P.P. Pertsov, A.S. Suvorin, Isadora Duncan.