A collection of articles covering the period from the end of the 19th century to the 30s of the 20th century is devoted to the perception of individual literary phenomena, "general" and philosophical problems - the study of the relationship between Russian and foreign literature. Among the "heroes" of the collection are Sappho and Saint Teresa, Goethe, Voltaire, Nietzsche and Meyerhold, Zola, Steiner and Platonov, D'Annunzio, Dos Passos, Hauptmann and Merezhkovsky, Gippius, Bryusov, Voloshin, Claudel, Kupov Eryus et al. The publication section publishes the historical story of Zygmunt Krasinsky "Agai Khan" translated by Vladislav Khodasevich.