About the book: 2006 / Anatoly Borisovich Mariengof (1897–1962), poet, novelist, playwright, memoirist, was a prominent figure in the literary life of Russia in the first half of our century . One of the founders of the poetic group of imagists, which had a certain influence on the development of Russian poetry in the 10-20s. He had a close personal and creative friendship with Sergei Yesenin. The author of more than a dozen plays performed in the country's leading theaters, numerous collections of poetry, two novels - "The Cynics" and "Catherine" - and an autobiographical trilogy. His memoir prose remained unknown to the reader for many years. Only in the last decade it began to be published, but only in parts, and never in a single volume. But he considered the three parts of his memoirs (“A Novel Without Lies”, “My Age, My Friends and Girlfriends” and “This is for You, Descendants!”) as a single whole and even gave this book, which did not take place during his lifetime, the title “Immortal trilogy". For the first time, Mariengof's memoirs are presented to the reader as the author intended. And the brilliant style, keen observation, vivid imagery of language, stories about legendary personalities in the history of our culture (Yesenin, Meyerhold, Kachalov, Stanislavsky and many others) really allow us to consider Mariengof’s trilogy immortal.