Stories about books, paintings, photographs, relics, and the people who created them all fit well into the author's genre of a short heuristic or memoir story, sometimes quite extensive, sometimes rather a heuristic short story, parabolic miniature or laconic silhouette of one of them. favorite artists and scientists. Essay style, a touch of lyrical irony or humor, analytics without "understanding" and love without affectation were optimal for the story of favorite projects, research stories, meetings, achievements and the inevitable, unfortunately, losses. Despite the apparent mosaic and diversity of these stories and memoirs - the integrity of the book is not only style, intonation, but also a special counterpoint to thematic echoes, end-to-end "cultural heroes" with their unique faces, such as Vasyl Stus or Les Kurbas, Mykhailo Sverstyuk , Roman Korogodsky, Les Tanyuk. And of course - Vladimir Svidzinsky.