This book is an important testimony on the Silver Age (1890-1920), a crucial moment in Russian culture.
It is also the story of Jean Neuvecelle (pseudonym of Dimitri Ivanov), an exceptional man who considers journalism as a literary genre like Mauriac, Kessel, Morand or Camus used to. Through his words a whole century and a whole continent come to life: the streets of Moscow during the Russian Revolution, the Second World War in France, Italy and its dolce vita, the publication of Doctor Zhivago, the life in Vatican state and many more. His voice retains intact and transmits, after all these years, the value of all the extraordinary moments and people he met in the course of his long life.