“I write not about myself and not for myself, but about those whom I was given the opportunity to know... I write about them and for them. I try to talk about myself as little as possible…” wrote Irina Odoevtseva, a Russian poetess, Nikolai Gumilyov’s favorite student, who left Russia in 1922, in the preface to her memoirs. She lived a long life and returned to her homeland in 1987 - the last representative of the distant Silver Age. She had a chance to see her books published in the USSR - the memoirs “On the Banks of the Neva” and “On the Banks of the Seine” were published in the late 1980s in colossal editions. The heroes of these memoirs are Nikolai Gumilyov, Georgy Ivanov, Osip Mandelstam, Zinaida Gippius, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Anna Akhmatova, Ivan Bunin and many others. And now, years later, this book - a monument to the era, its living testimony - is read with great interest. Odoevtseva’s phenomenal memory allowed her, many decades later, to reproduce conversations, discussions, and disputes of that time. In the last years of her life, I. V. Odoevtseva conceived a third book of memoirs, “On the Shores of Lethe,” which, however, remained unfinished: only a few chapters were published in the Parisian newspaper “Russian Thought.” These chapters are included in this edition.