Utuy Tatang Sontani, one of the founders of modern Indonesian literature, died in Moscow on September 17, 1979 at the age of 59. In Moscow he created a number ofworks which now are kept in the private Moscow archive. The writer arrived in Russia in 1973 from China, where he had come in late August 1965 with a delegation of the Communist Party of Indonesia. In connection with the army coup in the homeland which resulted in massacres of more than one million communists and their families, the return home for Utuy Tatang Sontani was impossible. In China, members of the delegation found themselves on the eve and at the rise of the Cultural Revolution. A gloomy picture of the situation there was portrayed by Utuy Tatang Sontany in his Memoirs (“Di bawah langit tak berbintang”) written later in Russia. In some other works created in Moscow the writer tried to understand the real background of the Indonesian tragedy. He placed considerable blame for it on President Sukarno, without mentioning his name. Because of his personal ambitions, a group of army generals was killed. That became a starting point for persecution of the Communist Party of Indonesia whose leaders focused on Maoist slogans and supported Sukarno’s ventures. Utuy Tatang Sontani is buried in Moscow at the Mitinskoe cemetery. The Appendix to the article contains the composition of the private Moscow archive of Utuy Tatang Sontani, as well as a list of his works that have been translated into Russian at various times.