Born and spent her childhood and youth in Russia, German writer Lou Andreas-Salome (Louise Gustavovna von Salome, 1861-1937), thanks to her outstanding mind, brilliant erudition and friendly ties with the brightest creative personalities of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries - F. Nietzsche, F. Wedekind, G. Hauptmann, R.M. Rilke, 3. Freud and many others - played a prominent role in the spiritual life of Europe. Memoirs " Lived and experienced " saturated with the most interesting facts of her biography.