Collective work for the first time in the history of Russian art history so voluminously illuminates the most significant phenomena of art (mainly painting and theater) of the three largest Yugoslav peoples in the 20th century. It tells about the complex ways of the formation and development of national schools, their interaction with European trends and Russian art, about their deep identity, the pages of the artistic history of the region of the last century, avant-garde practices, and the struggle of ideas, practically unknown to the Russian reader, open up.