This book can rightfully be called a discovery - a discovery for the Russian reader of the great poet Stefan Gheorghe, the founder of German symbolism, contemporary A. Blok, S. Mallarmé, O. Wilde, W.B. Yeats, etc. For almost a hundred years, the name of Stefan Gheorghe was banned in our country, since his poetry did not correspond to the canons of the so-called "progressive literature": aesthete, individualist (rejected the generally accepted and invented "personal" punctuation for himself), decadent, amoralist, reactionary...