The book is a collection of testimonies from relatives and friends, colleagues and fans of Rachmaninov's music at different stages of the composer's life. It contains memories of people closest to Sergei Vasilyevich and his family, and memoirs of contemporaries, giving an idea of the era and time in which the composer lived and worked.When we conceived this project, we saw it as the second part of the 'dilogy', which would include Oscar von Riesemann's book Sergei Rachmaninov. Memories' and a collection of memoirs of many of the heroes of these memories. We have put these memories together in a sequence close to chronological, leaving research and musical-analytical articles outside the scope of our book and preserving a fictional, novelistic intonation, as in the book by Rizeman, who was so imbued with the life and fate of Sergei Rachmaninoff that when reading, the boundary between the speech of the composer and the author sometimes disappears.