The book of memoirs of the artist Aristarkh Lentulov, one of the founders of the “Jack of Diamonds” association, a prominent representative of the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century, is the first complete publication of the artist’s literary heritage. The memoir spans from the 1900s to the 1930s. — the time of the formation of new trends in art, stormy creative battles, revolutionary fault lines and changes in formations, which marked the years of A. V. Lentulov’s youth and maturity. The publication is accompanied by photographs and letters from the archives of A. V. Lentulov’s family, reproductions of the artist’s paintings, detailed comments and addressed to a wide range of readers interested in Russian culture of the early - first third of the 20th century.