A new volume of prose by the writer Andrei Rennikov (real name: Andrei Mitrofanovich Selitrennikov; Kutaisi, 1882 - Nice, 1957), continuing his return to the domestic reader, after the collection of feuilletons about emigrant life “That’s why we sit” (Aletheia, 2018), opens new facets of his creativity. These are brilliant and ironic memoirs that tell about studying at a 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 “finest hour” in St. Petersburg, in communication with cultural elite of that time, then about the First World War, revolution, white movement, emigration. A separate chapter of the book is devoted to travel through Serbian Macedonia and Kosovo in the 1920s. The collection ends with a section containing philosophical and moral-religious works that sum up the spiritual path of the writer.