About the book: 1981 / Published in the magazine "Zvezda" No. 1, 1981 From the preface ... Even the talented Irakli Andronikov, a friend of my youth, did not know anything I could tell you about this period in our family’s life. The years of emigration are the years of my adolescence. It’s a wonderful time when life seems built on a solid foundation, when there is no doubt about anything and the future seems inviting. This is how our unsettled emigrant life seemed to me then....