The book “Everything by Heart” is unique; it presents the annual creative cycle of Andrei Bitov, a modern classic of Russian literature. The book includes new works: “In My Own Name,” “Portrait of My Court,” “Anti-CV.” And also the first publications of texts written earlier, several “oral works”? – current interviews given during the events of 2012, on the eve of the “centenary anniversary” of the year 1913, the most successful for Tsarist Russia, but also fatal, pre-war.” A work is something that did not exist? – but exists!? – Bitov’s well-known formula. The author tried to show how and against what background this instantaneous flight from an actual statement to an act of creativity occurs, from the author’s private observation to an understanding of historical processes in today’s Russia. From “there wasn’t” to “there is!”.