The book of memoirs of the artist Aristarkh Lentulov, one of the founders of the Jack of Diamonds association, a prominent representative of the Russian avant-garde of the early 20th century, is the first complete publication of the artist's literary heritage. The memoirs cover the period from the 1900s to the 1930s. - the time of the formation of new trends in art, stormy creative battles, revolutionary faults and changes in formations, which fell on the years of A.V. Lentulov's youth and maturity. The publication is accompanied by photographs and letters from the archive of the A.V. Lentulov family, reproductions of the artist's paintings, detailed comments and is addressed to a wide range of readers interested in Russian culture of the beginning - the first third of the XX century.