For the first time, the collected works of the most widely read novelist of the Silver Age, Alexander Valentinovich Amfitheatrov (1862–1938), are being published. From the vast creative heritage of the emigrant writer, who has not been published in his homeland for about 70 years, the collection includes his best novels, novellas and short stories. Separate volumes will be composed of memoir-journalistic prose, in which the reader will find the answer to the question why Amphiteatrov, who so obviously sympathized with Social Democracy together with his friend M. Gorky, fled from it into exile when it came to power. The first volume presents novels “Princess”, “Fire-Color” and “Poisoned Conscience”, with which the glory of the brilliant writer began.