You are holding the first book of memoirs by Vasily Borisovich Livanov. An astonishing, unique person of a special sort. Everyone who has already had the happiness to read this text in manuscript form or who was honored to hear excerpts directly from the author admitted that this is an incredible book, an event in our literature. We envy you, dear reader, who only has yet to make the “Path from Childhood” and hear the “Echo of one dash.”