Irakli Andronikov’s book “Everything is Alive...” includes his unique oral stories that amazingly capture time. These are stories in person, seen with one’s own eyes, where the author and the narrator are combined in one person. The second part of the book contains touches on the portraits of remarkable people of the last century, whose names are the history of our culture. And the third is stories about Lermontov, to whom Andronikov dedicated his life. “A sorcerer, a sorcerer, a miracle worker, a magician,” Korney Chukovsky wrote about him. “In my entire long life, I have never met a single person who was even remotely like him.” From various literary legends we know that in ancient times there were such masters and artisans. But their skill cannot be compared with that of Irakli Andronikov. The fact is that, as soon as he enters your room, Marshak, and Kachalov, and Fadeev, and Simonov, and Otto Yulievich Schmidt, and Tynyanov, and Pasternak, and Vsevolod Ivanov, and Tarle..."