About the book: 2015 / Essays and essays about Russian prose writers and poets of the post-October period - Osip Mandelstam, Isaac Babel, Ilya Ehrenburg, Samuel Marshak, Evgeniy Schwartz, Vera Inber and others - compose this book. The author, based on the biographies and works of writers, explores the connection between their ethnic roots, cultural environment and the characteristics of the individual worldview, formed under the influence of the mechanisms of national psychology.