The book «Confession of a Toastmaster» can be considered the guide of the Fates, Names, unique Cultures of the multinational Russian Soul at the meeting-point of the author’s fiction and publicism, where there is no explicit confrontation. And Shatakishvili performs with the apologia of the hidden decency: an aesthete, a fan and a true connoisseur of everything beautiful – from women’s beauty to the ringing silence. And the poet said about such people: «Could you play nocturne on a flute of drainpipes?»