The diary of my meetings. The cycle of tragedies. Annenkov Yu.

The book of memoirs and drawings of a wonderful Russian artist Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov (1889-1974) “The Diary of My Meetings” is devoted to outstanding figures of Russian culture, with many of which the author was friendly. A. Blok, A. Akhmatova, N. Gumilev, G. Ivanov, V. Khlebnikov, S. Yesenin, V. Mayakovsky, M. Gorky, A. Remizov, B. Pasternak, E. Zamyatin, B. Pilnyak, I. Babel, M. Zoshchenko, Sun. Meyerhold, V. Pudovkin, N. Jewish, S. Prokofiev, M. Larionov, N. Goncharov, A. Benois, K. Malevich and others appear on the pages of the “Diary...”, imprinted by the vigilant eye of the artist. Next to the people of art in the book, state and party figures of the first years of the revolution are represented - primarily Lenin and Trotsky.