Everything is Alive... Stories. Portraits. Memories

Ikakli Andronikov's book "Everything is Alive..." includes his unique oral stories that astonishingly capture the time. These are stories in faces, seen with one's own eyes, where the author and the storyteller merge into one person. The second part of... the book consists of sketches of portraits of remarkable people from the past century, whose names are the history of our culture. The third part features stories about Lermontov, to whom Andronikov dedicated his life. "A wizard, a sorcerer, a miracle worker, a conjurer," wrote Korney Chukovsky about him. "In all my long life, I have not met a single person who was even remotely similar to him. From various literary traditions, we know that in ancient times there were similar masters and craftsmen. But their mastery does not compare in any way to that possessed by Ikakli Andronikov. The thing is, as soon as he enters your room, along with him, the noisy and colorful crowd will enter with Marshak, Kachalov, Fadeev, Simonov, Otto Yulievich Schmidt, Tynyanov, Pasternak, Vsevolod Ivanov, and Tarle..."