Juri Andruchowytsch, "the poetic land surveyor" (FAZ) from the troubled zone of Ukraine, has invested a lot of time in befriending foreign cities that were supposed to offer him protection and peace. In some, he lingered for a while. Others became life stations: "Munich begins just behind Moscow, the alphabet harmonizes with time" - for Munich was the first German city that the young author from the crumbling Soviet Union visited, to write his Moscoviada nearby, at Lake Starnberg. Diamond shops instead of cinnamon shops - a street in Antwerp, chimerical, as if invented by Bruno Schulz. Sociology of street music in Berlin. With Andrzej Stasiuk in the hundred-story InterContinental in Bucharest. Visiting the tragic museum in Kharkiv. Traveling through abandoned gardens in Detroit. Novi Sad. Odessa. Paris. Prague. Stuttgart. Toronto. U.