The new book of the writer Ruslan Kireev not only tells about how the classics of Russian literature died, but, most importantly, reconstructs their attitude to death, from early years to the last hours of life. The very nature of these relationships, inevitably dramatic, sometimes tragic, leaves an undoubted imprint on their work, determining both acute psychologism and the tense internal plot of the works. The book is strictly documentary. At the heart of her letters and diaries, memoirs and archival papers, as well as texts of fiction by writers.