The evening is dedicated to Sasha Black - a poet whose biography is full of sharp turns, and whose poems combine sarcasm, pain, and subtle irony. The lecturer, literary scholar Nadezhda Dozhdikova, will analyze vivid texts, creative metamorphoses, and emigration years to show how behind the satire lies a very personal story of a person of his time. The name of Sasha Black is familiar from school poems and satirical pages, but behind the familiar image of a witty author lies a much more complex story. Literary scholar Nadezhda Dozhdikova suggests looking at the poet not as a sharp-tongued humorist, but as a person whose life went through the fracture of an era, emigration, and internal ruptures. The meeting takes place in the format of a live lecture with an analysis of key texts and biographical turns. The hero of the conversation will be an author from the early 20th century, whom the mass reader perceived as a malicious mocker. The brilliant satirical cycles of the early 1900s brought him noisy fame and simultaneously caused irritation among his colleagues. Later, he consciously distances himself from the malicious tone, turns to children's works, prose, and lyrics, as if arguing with himself and his early success. This turn becomes one of the central knots of the lecture. Nadezhda Dozhdikova, candidate of philological sciences and associate professor at the Department of Literature and Arts of RGISI, analyzes texts at the intersection of biography and historical context. The discussion will cover the pre-revolutionary years, military experience, emigration, changes in style and themes, as well as why the poet almost disappeared from the Soviet literary field and returned to the reader only by the end of the century. Examples from poems will help to feel how the author's intonation changes from sharp sarcasm to a softer, more observant view. Such a lecture will be of interest to those who love Russian literature, engage in humanitarian disciplines, or simply want to understand how the fate of an author caught between different countries and political systems unfolds.