The atmosphere of the Renaissance Russian Silver Age (late XIX - early XX centuries), marked by an extraordinary rise in spirituality and culture, is recreated in the book offered to the reader. The authors of the memoirs about Balmont, Sologub, Blok, Andrei Bely, Gumilyov, Voloshin, many other brilliant people of the domestic renaissance - the creators themselves or eyewitnesses of this era - were forced to leave their homeland after the revolution. Most of the memoirs collected by Vadim Kreid, professor of Slavic studies at the University of Iowa (USA), are published in Russia for the first time.