In his memoirs full of bitterness and sarcasm, literary critic, publicist and thinker Ivanov-Razumnik, friend of A. Blok and A. Belo, S. Yesenin and M. Prishvin, writes about the fate of the "dead," "strangled" and "adapted" Russian writers in the 1920s and 30s and about their own fate - the fate of a person who experienced prison and exile, but did not make a deal with his conscience and did not become a "Soviet writer."