Nikolai Evgenievich Burenin lived a long and interesting life . In his memoirs, he tells about the Bolshevik underground, about the Combat Technical Group that operated under the Central Committee of the RSDLP (B) in 1905, about meetings with V. and . Lenin, with prominent party workers: E. D. Stasovoy, L. B. Beautiful and others. Life N. E. Burenina was associated with famous figures of Russian and Western art: artists, writers, artists. The author is particularly fond of A.. M. Bitter, M. F. Andreeva . Many pages of the book are devoted to the musical and literary life of Russia at that time. This is the second edition of the book H. E. Burenina (corrected and supplemented). It contains the foreword A. M. Gorky, written in 1931 to Burenin's pamphlet "People of the Bolshevik Underground". The book published a number of new photos, expanded with new materials and a biographical essay about the author.