The book of the famous Soviet musicologist is devoted to the perception of R. Wagner's work in Russia, the communication of the great German composer with figures of Russian art, his performances in St. Petersburg and Moscow, the history of the embodiment of his works in the domestic opera house, where they found a new life. Wagner is the only one of the opera composers in the world who managed to create a theater or, as he called it, the "House of Solemn Performances," on the stage of which only his works were performed.