This is the first part of a journal that Lev Loseff kept during the years 1974 to 1975. In addition to the text of the journal, Lev included various letters, documents, playbills, and newspaper clippings, which are taped or glued to pages of the journal.

This segment of 50 pages inclludes the following letters: Sergei Dovlatov to Lev Loseff, 2 ALsS, 1974 January-April (pp. 22, 46); Vladimir Lifshits to Lev Loseff, 2 TLsS, 1974 April (pp. 48, 50); Josef Mlejnek to Lev Loseff, ALS, 1974 January 14 (p. 26); Kazis and Milda Saja to Lev Loseff, 2 ALsS, 1974 January (pp. 12, 14).