"Conversations with Goethe" of И.-П. Эккермана - one of major monuments, saving for us both the cherished ideas of great poet and living spirit of epoch, style of that time commonunication and discussions. Goethe appears as a severe critic, owner of imperious judgements about an art, and simultaneously thin judge of the distant from his creative tasks phenomena. "Conversations" are needed for all, persons interested to understand, as modern ideas were world literature, universal history of art, art as form of knowledge, and also modern study of art and criticism as knowledge about a man. Belonging at once to a few epochs of world art and overpeering above them, Goethe sets the pattern of the adjusted and unfolded judgements even about the unnoticeable at first phenomena. In this edition we give select conversations, made a book and provided with a prolusion professor of РГГУ Alexander Markov.