Ivan Alekseevich Bunin is a poet and prose writer, the first Russian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize (1933). His works have been translated into many languages of the world and are forever inscribed in the golden fund of world literature. The revolution of 1917 forced Bunin to leave his homeland, but the memory of the irretrievably lost Russia, of the people with whom fate brought him together, became the support for all his further work. The book “Memoirs” was published in 1950 in Paris, but the first chapters were written much earlier. Repin, Rachmaninov, Chekhov, Kuprin, Chaliapin - portraits of those with whom Bunin was well acquainted are recreated here. In Soviet Russia, it was impossible to read the book in its entirety until Perestroika; even in the collected works of the writer, fragments and chapters were removed from it, where Bunin spoke sharply negatively, sarcastically about his colleagues in the shop who found themselves on the side of the Bolsheviks: about Gorky, Mayakovsky, Blok, Yesenin, "Tolstoy the Third." In this edition, these omissions are restored from the lifetime edition. Memories of L.N. Tolstoy, whom Bunin revered all his life, grew into the essay “The Liberation of Tolstoy.”