Charles Darwin's tortoise

“Charles Darwin’s Turtle” is a synthetic book of selected works by Anatoly Dnistrovsky. It presents poetic works from 1993-2013, poems, translations, as well as a small corpus of micro-essays, which the author calls epistles. For the first time, several areas of Dnistrovsky’s work – poetry, translations, and essays – are combined under one cover, which will allow the reader to better experience the writer’s favorite themes – cultural memory, abandoned spaces, and the experience of losing the past, which until recently was the present. The image of Charles Darwin’s turtle, which died of a heart attack in 2006 at the age of 250, is a metaphor for the last witness of those times, whose representatives are practically gone.