The collection includes articles and notes of different years, published with rare exceptions in the writings of the Pushkin House and in the publishing house "Science." Most of them are devoted to the perception in Russia of the work of French writers and critics of the 18th-19th centuries. - Voltaire, L.-S. Mercier, J. de Stael, S. Milvois, V. Hugo, S.-O. St. Beva, I. Ten, E. Rostana, etc.; in the rest we are talking mainly about the "Russian theme" in French literature and about personal contacts between figures of Russian and French cultures. The material is located, if possible, in accordance with the chronology of the historical and cultural process. The collection is designed for specialists - literary critics and theater experts, as well as for all those who are interested in interethnic cultural communication in its various manifestations and forms.