Distant, relatives. Sedykh A.

Andrey Sedykh (real name - Yakov Moiseevich Zvibak; 1902-1994) - Russian journalist, writer, for some time the personal secretary of I.A. Bunin. During the Civil War, he emigrated from Russia to Bulgaria to a seventeen -year -old young man, then to Turkey, then to France, where he became a correspondent for the influential Russian newspaper Latest News. His memories are devoted mainly to the great Russian exiles, those who did not adopt the Bolshevik revolution. These are Bunin, A. Kuprin, M. Addanov, A. Remizov, K. Balmont, N. Taffy, S. Black, Don Aminado, S. Rachmaninov, F. Chaliapin, A. Glazunov, S. Kusevitsky, M. Shagal , P. Milyukov and many others. Bright, lively, full of curious details of the memoirs of Andrei Sedykh made him one of the main chroniclers of the Russian abroad.