Distant, close

The hereditary journalist Andrei Sedykh (1902-1994) at the age of 17 fled from the Bolsheviks from Feodosia through Constantinople to Paris, graduated from the school of political sciences there and became a newspaper reporter, having worked for 20 years by the parliamentary correspondent of the emigrant newspapers "Latest news" and today. A close acquaintance of all Russian Parisians, secretary of Ivan Bunin during his receipt of the Nobel Prize, author of outline books about Paris and its inhabitants. Since 1942 - in the USA. He works in the oldest Russian newspaper "New Russian Word", since 1973 - its editor -in -chief. In America, he published several more books, including three editions of the memoirs "distant, close" about his meetings with Bunin, Kuprin, Aldanov, Mandelstam, Voloshin, Balmont, Chaliapin, etc., specially for this publication, the writer Arkady Lvov wrote a memoir outline about his The senior comrade "man from Taurida"