Readers are presented with a book of memoirs of one of the largest masters of Russian graphics of the first half of the twentieth century. Vladimir Alekseevich Milashevsky (1893-1976). This is not only a description of the artist's creative path in art. Memories cover the pre-war and revolutionary years of St. Petersburg-Petrograd, Moscow of the NEP era, the thirties and the post-war years. The publication is composed of literary short stories dedicated to outstanding figures of literature and art of those years - Henri Barbusu, Andrei Bely, Anna Akhmatova, Alexei Tolstoy and others. The piercing perception of time and the originality of the changing historical eras transmitted by the author on the pages of the book give memories special value.