Amphitheaters Alexander Valentinovich (1862-1923) - Russian feuilletonist and fiction writer, the most popular writer of the early XX century. Newspaper clipping, a snippet of a conversation accidentally heard, a scandal in Moscow aristocratic circles inspire him, serving as material for feuilletons, sometimes very sharp. One of these, "Lord Deceptions," that is, the Romanovs, caused A. to be exiled to Minusinsk (1902). Feuilleton character colors all the work of A. He writes poems, dramas, critical articles and novels - about the artist Dalmatov and about Archpriest Avvakum, about Nero ("The Beast from the Abyss"), about life and morals of the late XIX century. (novels "Eighties" and "Nineteen"), about the female question and prostitution ("Victoria Pavlovna" and "Marya Lusyeva"). A. attracts a public chronicle with a wide capture of the era. We also find works from the era of serfdom ("Princess"), from the life of the theater ("Twilight of the Gods"), on occult themes (the novel "Zhartsvet"). "Running through life" - this is how one of the critics characterizes A.'s work. The portraiture of the figures gives his works the interest of curious socio-historical documents.