Merck Graz!

Mercks Graz! is a nostalgic story about love in the time of plague, time travel, and the spirit of a European city, inspired by the author's months spent in Covid isolation in Graz, Austria.

The book also contains travel sketches – sketches of a European city, in which the author, with warmth and light humor, talks about today's Graz and its inhabitants. The notes convey the free and somewhat idyllic atmosphere of a European city, where the richness of historical architecture and the beauty of the mountain landscape are combined with modern design and cosmopolitan culture. From culinary curiosities to overheard speeches in a queue, from linguistic curiosities to local plants – the author sorts through his impressions like beads, interspersed with thoughts about his beloved Vitebsk – a once proud European city, like Graz, deprived of its spirit and distinctiveness in recent centuries. The entire book – a confession of love for Graz and Vitebsk and the Vitebsk region – is distinguished by the language in which it is written.