Alethea. There was everything, everything will be. Memoir and moral-philosophical works. Rennikov A.

The new volume of the prose of the writer Andrei Rennikov (real name: Andrei Mitrofanovich Selitrennikov; Kutaisi, 1882 - Nice, 1957), continuing his return to the domestic reader, after the feuilleton’s collection of emigrant life “Therefore, we are sitting” (Aletaia, 2018), opens up New facets of his work. These are brilliant and ironic memoirs telling about studying at the classical gymnasium in Georgia and at the Novorossiysk University in Odessa, about the first steps in journalism in the same Odessa, as well as in Chisinau and, finally, about the “stellar hour” in St. Petersburg, in communicating with The cultural elite of that time, then about the First World War, revolution, white movement, emigration. A separate chapter of the book is reserved for a trip to Serbian Macedonia and Kosovo in the 1920s. The collection completes the section where philosophical and moral-religious works are collected, summing up the spiritual path of the writer.