“The Green Lamp” is a memoir by prose writer and literary scholar Lidia Libedinskaya (1921–2006) about her childhood, parents, her husband Yuri Libedinsky, friends, and the time in which she lived. Optimism was the main thing in how she perceived life; nobility and democratic character were the main things in her relationships with people. This is the story of an extraordinary person who throughout her life drew in interesting people. Mikhail Svetlov, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Marina Tsvetaeva, Georgy Efron, Veniamin Kaverin, Iosif Yigin, Nikolay Zabolotsky, Korney Chukovsky, David Samoilov, and many, many others were her dear friends.