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The purple covers of the book "Nikolai Liliev. Meetings and Conversations" are very reminiscent of the latest edition of his poems. But that is hardly the only reason why many people were fooled into buying it. The interest of a wide circle of readers in Liliev's personality, poetry, translation and theatrical activities is sincere and enhanced by the lack of serious research and detailed studies on a number of facts from the poet's biography and work. Petko Tiholov clearly felt this acute lack and firmly decided to fill it. One cannot fail to appreciate his exceptional persistence: for about thirty years Liliev regularly refused to talk about himself to him and only at the end of 1959 "after agonizing, prolonged hesitation" did he give in. The author himself, and in two different places in his book, admits: "Nikolai Liliev was stubbornly silent. He did not want to talk about himself." No less obvious is the undeniable warm and sincere feeling of love, deep respect and admiration that the author feels for the entire personality of Nikolay Liliev.