Your attention is offered for the first time published on archival primary sources in full preserved text memoir book of the largest Russian writer-symbolist, written in Berlin in 1922-1923. Andrei Bely unfolds a colorful and wide panorama of the literary, artistic and intellectual life of Russia of the pre-war years, outlines vivid portraits of many remarkable representatives of this era, recreated in an emphasized individual author’s perception. The focus of the writer is his relationship with A. Block, D. C. Merezhkovsky and 3. N. Gippius, W. Bryusov, Vyach . Ivanov, E. K. Metner, M. About. Gershenzon, N. A. Berdyaev et al . "Berlin" "Beginning of the century" reflects a more reliable author's view of the experience than the later memoir trilogy of Andrei Bely, written with an eye to the ideological requirements of the Soviet era.