Everyone thirsty for an answer to the question "how did Dostoevsky and Tolstoy treat each other?" can find it in this book. For the first time, it presents with almost encyclopedic completeness everything that two great contemporaries thought, said and wrote about each other. They, despite their mutual desire, were not destined to meet in this life. The author of the book does not aim to include in the orbit of readers' attention critical and literary interpretations of the works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. On the pages of this publication, a dialogue between two great people of Russia unfolds, which they have been conducting since their youth, realizing that sooner or later a meeting will take place in the space of time.