About the book: 2010 / Author of memoirs, a native of Courland (now Latvia) Johannes von Günther, at the dawn of his literary career equally participated in cultural life both countries - Germany and Russia, and everywhere he was included in literary salons, editorial offices of leading magazines, publishing houses, and even in the house of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov. A one of a kind destiny. For the first time, readers are offered a complete Russian translation of a book that has long been common practice among specialists in both Russian literature of the Silver Age and German literature of the “Jugend style” era. Not a single serious commentary on the texts of Blok, Bely, Vyach can do without it. Ivanov, Kuzmin, Gumilev, Voloshin, Remizov, Piast and many other Russian authors of the early 20th century. References to it are also found in works about Rilke, Hofmannsthal, Georg, Bley and other stars of German-language literature of the same time.