In the book there are presented the geopoetic and art essays devoted to geographical imagination, figurative perception of space, metageography — to an attempt to fall outside the limits of terrestrial landscapes direct vision, including in Russian literature.

Images of the Russian space are interpreted in various sociocultural contexts. Thanks to it, there is a new, live foreshortening of perception of a historical landscape.
Essay genre, high-grade presented in this book, is now one of the most interesting and the most perspective for harmonious development of modern Russian literature...