The Library of the Writers in revolutionary Moscow is like a haven of love of culture and books in the midst of a chaotic and violent world and against every imaginable difficulties.

In Russia devastated by civil war and revolution in a few years of chaos and hunger, culture and the world of books went through an extremely critical situation. Virtually publishers and bookstores, massive inflation and misery were the books were not worth anything, and bibliographic jewels were changed by a handful of flour or sugar. In this very unfavorable context, a group of writers and intellectuals founded in Moscow Writers' Bookshop, which will become legendary and key a piece of Russian cultural life of the years 1918-1922. This book -written by one of its founders is excited and exciting story of the history of the Library, its foundation and its operation, the difficulties he had to overcome and their daily work, ranging from the picturesque and dramatic and even dangerous. The history of the Library of Writers is an episode of great interest to the cultural life of one of the most turbulent periods in modern history.