Andrey Filimonov - writer, poet, journalist. In 2012, he came up with and launched the Traveling Poetry Festival “PlyasNigde” across Russia and Europe. The author of several poetry collections and the novel Tadpole and the Saints (shortlisted for the National Bestseller and NOS awards). Recipes for the Creation is a “fairy tale based on real experience,” a quest through the labyrinth of family history that winds its way from Paris to Siberia throughout the twentieth century. Family members are the most ordinary people: traitors and heroes, emigrants and communists, victims of repression and holders of orders. Uncle Vasya died at the Bolshoi Theater, cadet Volodya lost the battle at Perekop, young pilot Mitya during the war had an affair in Alaska with an American woman from the Apache tribe, whose name was A-36... And none of them talked about their lives. At best, he left a few letters in the family archive... And the main character of the novel goes to the other side of Lethe to personally communicate with the shadows of forgotten ancestors.