Andriy Puchkov's book consists of three blocks united by one matter - Kyiv and around, where the city seems to twist into a cocoon "around". The first block - "Kyiv and the Earth" - about water, sky, movement, birds and war. That is, look around (the main verb here is "look around"), up and down, summer and winter, blindly and intently. The second block - "Kyiv and the Word" - about how Kyiv professors of the XIX-XX centuries embodied classical knowledge in half-empty student heads infected with freedom and revolution, and how she behaved to remain in the pages of history. That is: the rise of scientific meanings at the level of the heyday of Kyiv's intellectual culture. The third block - "Kyiv and Stone" - about urban outlines and texts in these outlines. That is: looking at the city from different angles. Here, between Andriyivsky Descent and the creative rise of architect Yosyf Karakis - a buffer layer - is an essay on Osip Mandelstam's essay "Kyiv", which fell not far from his "Stone".
Addressed to Kyivites, Kyiv scholars, art critics.