Vsevolod Bagno is one of the leading domestic comparativists specializing in the study of Russian literature in the context of the world, the image of Russia, the laws of intercultural relations, history and theory of literary translation. This book combines articles and essays under one cover, in which the focus is on that period of Russian culture. (late XIX - early XX centuries), when the intensity and depth of mutual gravitation and mutual understanding between Russia and the Romanesque world, with all the diversity of individual private examples, episodes and facts, became one of the important facets of what we call the Silver Age.