Three Kingdoms

The book "TroyeTsarstvie" (Three Kingdoms) opens up the world of Andrey Shatilin's poetic images – free, energetic, and sincere. The author engages in a dialogue with the reader, leaving riddles and hints, inviting reflection and the search for one's own answers. These poems resonate like a journey through worlds – cultural, historical, and personal.

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The setting of "TroyeTsarstvie" is the entire world, its historical and cultural space. Both the distant, always mysterious East, and Crimea, and Paris, and even mysterious mountains where the poet ascends... Overcoming spiritual space requires immense energy; it is embedded in Andrey Shatilin's poems, and it defines much within them.

The author is free from stereotypes; he does not shy away from ambiguities and riddles. One could say that he plays his own game with the reader, remaining sincere, at times even trustingly open and frank.

An attentive reader will notice many meanings, associations, and hidden quote-messages embedded in each poem. Sometimes the poet leaves the reader to unravel his riddles, without even hinting at possible answers, but this too is part of the rules of his own game with the reader, part of a possible dialogue with them. We sincerely hope that this dialogue will be excitingly interesting and unexpected.