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The book of memoirs by Ihor Kachurovsky (1918-2013), the seventh neo-classical writer and winner of the 2006 Shevchenko Prize, is the embodiment of the author's long-standing plan, which he cherished in his old age. This "small-format" memoir prose (essays, portrait sketches, articles, notes...) reflects the brightest episodes of Ihor Vasylovych's life: From school stories set in Nizhyn in the early 1930s, through the bitter exile of a family that was "unreliable" in the eyes of the Soviet authorities (Russian Kursk, after a brief return to their native place during World War II - the Austrian DP camps, and then the life, or rather survival, of the Ukrainian colony in Buenos Aires) up to the respectable Munich, where Kachurovsky finally achieved the fullness of creative and intellectual self-realisation, and his impressions of visiting Ukraine during the era of independence. Many pages of the publication are devoted to talented, outstanding personalities - people of culture and science with whom the author was lucky enough to communicate in exile. The publication also includes "Creative Autobiography" - a chronicle of the writer's literary career and, at the same time, his aesthetic manifesto.