"The girl rolling SERCO..." Memoir writing.Diaries

Olga f Hildebrandt-Arbenina until recently was known as the Muse and lover N. Gumilev and Osip Mandelstam, as the recipient of poetic dedications poets of the silver age... But "La Sylphide", "Psyche", "the quiet face of the Northern capital", the beauty, the actress, who Gumilev called "king-child", first of all was extremely interesting artist. Literary the legacy of Olga Hildebrandt first collected under the cover of this book. It is memories of "theatrical" ancestors, family, childhood and youth, about the artists and, finally, literary and artistic environment of St. Petersburg-Petrograd second half of the 1910's-early 1920-ies and its famous representatives: Gumilev, Mandelstam, Block, Kuzmin, Meyerhold, Ursone, Glebova-Sudeikina, of the house of Canneverbe... Part of the texts published for the first time. The book complements the rich illustrative material, including not only the portraits and photographs of the heroes of memories, but also reproductions of watercolors Olga Hildebrandt.