A table with a view of the Kremlin | Pavel Reshka

“A Table with a View of the Kremlin” is a kind of coming-of-age diary, where old entries are perceived in a new light. It’s like reviewing your old notes from the perspective of acquired experience: new knowledge becomes comments in the margins, revealing previously unnoticed details, intonations, and reactions that take on new meanings. Such reflection on a significant period of life and beliefs requires courage and honesty, especially with oneself.

The author emphasizes that "A Table with a View of the Kremlin" is not a report, although it deals with real people and events. From a journalistic point of view, it may not be a report, but from a literary point of view, it is an autobiographical novel with a circular structure and multi-layeredness, full of quotes, both obvious and hidden.

This book is an invitation to visit. Pavel Reshka invites the reader to the kitchen of his past, to take another look at his past over a cup of coffee. Perhaps there will be something in that past that is worth rethinking or talking about. Or taking notes to reread over time, turning over one of the pages of his life.