Stamp album

Andrey Sergeev (1933–1998) — a poet, recognized as a master of verse translation of English-language poetry of the 20th century. In the mid-50s, he was part of the "Chertkov group", the first uncensored community of poets in post-Stalin Moscow. A landmark figure of the underground scene in the 60s and 70s.
"Album for Stamps" — a mosaic novel-memoir, awarded the Booker Prize in 1996, autobiographical prose and at the same time a strong and accurate depiction of the era of the 30s–50s. The memoir "Portraits" are elegant and precise — whether it's about little-known people, or about "personalities" — Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Korney Chukovsky, Joseph Brodsky, who dedicated several poems to Andrey Sergeev.