Andrey Sergeyev (1933–1998) is a poet recognized as a master of translating poetry from English-language verse of the 20th century. In the mid-1950s, he was part of the “Chertkov group,” the first underground (uncensored) community of poets in post-Stalin Moscow. A landmark figure of the 1960–70s underground. “Album for Stamps” is a mosaic novel-memoir that received the Booker Prize in 1996; autobiographical prose and, at the same time, a strong and precise depiction of the era of the 1930s–50s. Memoir “Portraits” are elegant and accurate—whether it’s about relatively little-known people or “persons”—Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Korney Chukovsky, Joseph Brodsky, who dedicated several poems to Andrey Sergeyev.