Stamp Album

📕 "Stamp Album" paints a picture of hitherto unknown "catacomb Russia". The communal apartment Sergeev describes is not a typical community of Soviet citizens... They neither fight the regime, nor adapt to it... Sergeev's memory seems to collect mere trifles: children's ditties, counting rhymes, old slogans, newspaper clippings, snatches of conversations, official documents, urban folklore and much else. He fishes various fragments out of this detritus and files them carefuUy away in his stamp album". Natalia Pervukhina in "Russkaya Mysl" "Sergeev's extraordinary memory, the skill of a professional collector, his fantastic sharpness of vision, his passion for details and objects as well as for individuals - all these make "Stamp Album" fascinating reading". The Russian Journal "The author of this text-collage is clearly a passionate collector of all sorts of things: coins, stamps, period objects, interesting people, curious words, and anecdotes. "Stamp Album" is a memoir composed of verbal photographs". ExLibris "A true master of time, Sergeev will always be absolutely contemporary. He stands alone..." Alexander Pyatigorsky in "Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye" "I value Sergeev's opinion exceedingly. I would even say that Sergeev's opinion of my poems has always been more important to me than anything on earth: If there existed some higher or last judgment for me in matters of poetry, then it was Sergeev's opinion". Joseph Brodsky