Alexander Zhitinsky spent 71 years and 5 days on earth, remaining invariably young, cheerful and kind. He was a writer. One of the most talented in St. Petersburg. In Russia. In our time. He was also a lyric poet. Real. A skillful and successful screenwriter. Tireless publisher. He worked as he lived - quickly. Rushing into the future. With whom Alexander Nikolaevich had some kind of inexplicable constant contact, similar to the gift of foresight. Samuel Lurie

He was a workaholic and a lover of life. He perfectly knew the crushing power of the funny and understood better than many, many others the infinitely sad “I will shed tears over fiction.” He was a master. He could do everything in literature. And how much he could do in life! The organizer of the literary publishing process, and also a professional music lover, the coolest of rock amateurs, and also - strangely - a native of the Internet... He was a RARE person! Boris Strugatsky

Both rock and the Internet were for not only an opportunity to change work and life, to shed old skin (“I like to engage in activities for which I am not intended”), but also a chance for that very collective, joyful, universal transformation of life, which is occupied by the favorite heroes of his novels. Dmitry Bykov< /p>