"I write these memories with the secret hope that you, my readers, will love as living those whom I remember. Love them, resurrect them in your memory and in your hearts. And thereby give them immortality. You, my contemporaries, and you, those who will read - I confidently hope for this - "On the banks of the Neva," when I will no longer be in the world for a long time. "Irina Odoevtseva's memoirs "On the banks of the Neva" have been read and re-read for several decades, but many secrets have not yet been revealed. Oleg Lekmanov, a philologist, professor at the Higher School of Economics, who wrote books about Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin and Venedikt Erofeev, studied the famous text, decomposing it into many components. "A Guide to the Book "On the Banks of the Neva"" is a dialogue between the author and the researcher.