This collection includes the most famous memoirs of Mariengof. “A Novel Without Lies,” dedicated to the writer’s close friend, Sergei Yesenin, debunks the image of the “hooligan poet” and many of the legends that surround him and introduces the reader to a completely different Yesenin – not without flaws, but a sensitive, vulnerable, spiritually pure person. “My Age, My Friends and Girlfriends” is a brilliantly written narrative about the literary and artistic world of the late Silver Age and the “Roaring Twenties,” the era when new, modernist art was created in Russia...