Sergey Gandlevsky is a poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. He worked as a school teacher, tour guide, stagehand, night watchman; Currently, he is the editor of the journal Foreign Literature. From the age of eighteen he wrote poems, which until the second half of the 80s were published abroad in emigrant publications, and since the late 80s they have been published in Russia. Winner of many literary awards, including the Little Booker Prize, the Northern Palmyra Prize, the Apollo Grigoriev Prize, the Moscow Account, and the Poet Prize. Scholarship holder of the POESIE UND FREIHEIT EV Foundation. Participant of poetry festivals and performances in Austria, England, Germany, USA, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, Lithuania, Japan. S. Gandlevsky's poems have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Lithuanian and Japanese. Prose - in English, French, German and Slovak. “The Mindless Past” is “fugitive memoirs”, according to the author’s definition, which begin with the history of the family and end with December 2011, with thousands of Moscow protest rallies.