If you strive for accuracy, the word "geopoetics" should be used in the plural. With regard to this anthology - the first, by the way, and a very preliminary sum of geopoetic experience in Russian! - In any case. Unfortunately or vice versa, our linguistic flair resists such use.

Professor of the Russian State University, Doctor of Historical Sciences Alexander Pyzhikov gave his fundamental book “The City of the Russian Cross” the modest subtitle “Notes on our history from the 17th century to 1917”. Almost 650 page labor-notes? The book has five chapters, in each - from three hundred to five hundred links to documents, that is, the author processed about two thousand sources - giant work!

Remember, Chekhov has in notebooks: “I drove to Kharkov. Finally the south "? Over the course of official time, a person, as you know, is smaller, the sky becomes closer, and not only Kharkov (by the way, the former capital of the Ukrainian SSR), which is at night from the very blue sea, but even Kyiv (the current capital) remains for some vacationers the unconditional south of Russia. Well, in Naphtalin things last longer, and the smell ...

When we hear something about South Africa, completely different things are born in my head. Blacks walk along the streets with weapons, whites are sitting in reservations and moving around the city in groups and small dashes. We also know that it’s very hot there, giraffes and rhinos go, and there was also the World Cup there. Have you forgotten something? Oh, then you really know more than the overwhelming number of people.