Over the past three hundred years, many Russian writers have visited the UK. They left their memories, essays, articles and letters. For the first time, the book contains the most significant and interesting statements of Russian writers about the life, culture and literature of the English people, the national way of life. Published by N. M. Karamzin, P. Ya. Chaadaev, I. A. Goncharov, I. S. Turgenev, A. I. Herzen, F. M. Dostoevsky, M. Gorky, V. V. Nabokov, A. N. Tolstoy, E. I. Zamyatin, I. A. Bunin and others. The book is designed for a wide range of readers, and is also of interest to philologists, historians, and journalists.