The collection includes two cycles of poems (“Two Homelands”, “Evolution of Life”), as well as individual poems (sections “Conversation with the Creator” and “Testament”), written after 1998 and not included in the author’s previous collections .V.N. Fedorchuk is the author of poetry books: “Brezozor. Poems from the period of mild turmoil" (St. Petersburg, 1997), "Glass. Poems about particularity" (St. Petersburg: Lyceum, 1999), "River Ustya. A poetic story about a Russian locality" (St. Petersburg: SPbGPU, 2003, 2008), "On the shore of the blue sea. Poem" (St. Petersburg: SPbSPU, 2007), "After the winter. Poems of different years" (St. Petersburg: SPbSPU, 2007), "There was hope. Poems 1988–2010" (St. Petersburg: SPbSPU, 2013).