About the book: year / Grigory Fabianovich Gnessin (1884–1938) was the youngest representative of this family, and his fate today is practically unknown, as is his extensive literary heritage, mostly never published. Naturally multi-talented as a musician, singer, writer (poet, playwright, translator), actor, he lived a bright and at the same time tragic life, which ended with execution in 1938 in Leningrad. The book “Memoirs of a Wandering Singer” by Grigory Gnesin, which is brought to the attention of readers, was first published in 1917 in Petrograd, and was republished in 1997. In it, the author describes with passion and love his travels around Italy, where he went at the age of 19. The publication is supplemented with materials from the collections of the El Memorial Apartment Museum. F. Gnesina (Moscow) and the Manuscript Department of the Russian National Library (St. Petersburg): this is the fabulous tetralogy “Teresita, Princess of the Northern Country,” two radio plays, as well as some of his many poems, all published for the first time.