This book is a joint autobiography of the writer Sergei Yuryenen and the philologist and philosopher Mikhail Epstein. Their friendship began in 1967, in the first year of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, and continues for half a century, now in the United States. This is not only a double and dialogical autobiography, but also an encyclopedia of the most mysterious, searching, passionate, tormenting, selfish, crisis, metaphysical age — youth. One hundred and twenty articles reveal in alphabetical order the main problems and lyrical and philosophical facets of youth from 'Absolute' to 'I'. Spanning seven years, from 1967 to 1974, the book plunges into the world of youthful passions and doubts, creative impulses, love torments, social fears, existential and professional questions. At the same time, this is the experience of lyrical cultural studies: the historical and everyday context of the era passing from the 'thaw' is considered in detail"to ' stagnation', the university and literary environment, student mores, changes in public consciousness; colorful portraits of contemporaries — writers, scientists, professors of Moscow State University are given. This is a dialogue of peers who speak FROM their youth — and at the same time about it, in the perspective of subsequent life experience. The publication is illustrated with photographs from the authors ' personal archives.