The book, prepared by the Department of Classical Literatures of the West and Comparative Literature of the Institute of Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is dedicated to famous adventurers and writers who visited the 18th century. in Russia: Casanova, Cagliostro, d'Eon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Tschudi, Fougeret de Montbron, the Zannovich brothers, etc. Since adventurers consciously turn their lives into a work of art, their biographies are considered as a single text and compared with narrative models eras (novel, comedy, literary myth, alchemy, game). Traveling through social, literary and geographical space, the adventurer seduces society and transforms the world by proposing plans for utopian states.