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Andrei Sedykh (real name - Yakov Moiseevich Zvibak, 1902-1994) - Russian journalist, writer, for some time personal secretary I.A. Bunin. During the Civil War, he emigrated from Russia to Bulgaria to a seventeen -year -old young man, then to Turkey, then to France, where he became a correspondent for the influential Russian newspaper "Latest News". His memories are devoted mainly to the great Russian exiles, those who did not accept the Bolshevik revolution. These are Bunin, A. Kuprin, M. Addanov, A. Remizov, K. Balmont, N. Taffy, S. Black, Don Aminado, S. Rachmaninov, F. Chaliapin, A. Glazunov, S. Kusevitsky, M. Shagal , P. Milyukov and many others. Bright, lively, full of curious details of Andrei Sedykh"s memoirs made him one of the main chroniclers of the Russian abroad