Life on the eastern wind

The author of memories, a native of Kurland (now - Latvia) Johannes von Günther (1886-1973) at the dawn of his literary career in equally took part in the cultural life of both countries - and Germany, and Russia, and everywhere was in literary salons, the editorial office of leading magazines , publishers and even in the house of the Grand Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanova. The only fate of a kind. But the memoirs are bribed not only and maybe not so much by this. They constantly feel the main thing that ensures the durability of essisses, including the memoir, is the taste rod. Taste for all true, significant, new, unprecedented.
For the first time, the readers are first offered to the full Russian translation of the book, which has long been entered into the usual use of specialists both in the Russian literature of the Silver Century, and in the German - the Epoch of the Ughend-Style. Without it, no serious commentary on the texts of the block, White, Vyach. Ivanova, Kuzmina, Gumileva, Voloshin, Remizov, Four and many other Russian authors of the beginning of the 20th century. Links to it are found in the works of Rilke, Hoffmanstala, George, Bley and other stars of the German-speaking literature of the same time