We have collected the memories of Andrei Georgievich Bitov’s relatives, friends and comrades, with the goal of finding and recording new information about the famous writer, information that has not yet been presented in journal articles or literary works. Shirvindt and Zhvanetsky, Rost and Velikanov, Gabriadze and Fagot - they all shared their memories of Bitovo himself, of his work, of the halo that surrounded the famous writer. Here is a busy life at an ornithological station in the Kaliningrad region, and the baptism of an already adult writer in Georgia, and even the mysterious Circassian origin of his last name. The book will expand your understanding of your long-loved writer.