Ascent to Mount Kachkar

Do not think that this heroic ascent was only the embodiment of the climbing of the writer, safely prompted by the circumstances of the spring and summer of 1917. It is obvious that behind the conquest of Kachkar for Ilya Zdanevich stood something completely different. If you believe him with notebooks, he and the artist Mikhail Le Dantu, no later than the fall of 1916, has the idea of ​​creating a new creative association called Tiflis in the geographical breadth. Friends are founding in Petrograd University "41 ° ", later a group with the same name will declare themselves in the capital of independent Georgia, in the end, the university and the publishing house of the same name will appear in Paris. And in the fall of 1917, Zdanevich will separate from the archaeological expedition to the territories of the north-east of Turkey and not only make an act of futuristic elevation, rise to Olympus, he will ascend to the mountain, located at the intersection of the 41st parallel and the 41st meridian, giving the neighboring with the neighboring one Kachkar of the nameless peak, the name of his recently deceased friend.
Compiled by S. Kudryavtsev