Colchis

In the distant thirties of the last century, Colchis - a flat area in Georgia along the Black Sea coast from Sukhumi to Kobuleti - was actively developed. The goal was clear - to ennoble the local landscape, drain the malaria swamps, grow tropical plants, turn the area into fertile fields and pastures, in a word, create a "flowering garden". Paustovsky writes about this. But from the pen of a classic of literature, it is not dry reports that come out, but a whole poem in prose, written in a...