A huge number of books, articles, studies, dissertations have been written about Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov (1856-1919), but at the same time he remains the most mysterious, the most controversial character of the Silver Age. Conservative, decadent, patriot, Christ-worshipper, statesman, anarchist, cleric, erotomaniac, monarchist, Judeophobe, in love with everything Jewish, uninhibited journalist, philosopher of gender, a free prisoner of his own impressions, he lived an unusually difficult, passionate and bright life. Having become one of the most famous Russian writers of his time, he treated literary fame with contempt, and at the end of his life he witnessed the collapse of both the Russian statehood and his own family. Rozanov's story is a story of brilliant victories and defeats, happiness and unhappiness, what Blok called the immutable law of the heart: "joy is one suffering." And to all these feelings, all sensations, all events and moments of life, V. V. was able to pick up the most accurate and magical, the most "Rozanov" words that have not lost their charm a century later. The author of the book, writer Alexey Varlamov, does not shy away from the acute and difficult questions of his hero's biography and invites the reader to look for answers to them together with him.