Ilya Schneider did not just meet with Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan at different times and under different circumstances. He lived with them, was associated with Duncan common work. The memoirs recreate the multifaceted image of the poet. Schneider does not try to smooth out sharp corners, he gives a portrait without retouching, and in this portrait Yesenin is immediate and kind, bold and talented. Internally polemicizing with the author of sensational memories of Yesenin A. Mariengof, Schneider tells the truth about Isadora Duncan - an intelligent man, a charming woman, not even a real, great artist. The memoirs of I. Schneider not only help readers to understand these people more deeply, but also paint the life of Moscow in the 1920s.