Before you is the first book of poems and prose by Gennady Moiseenko, a writer from the city of Velikiye Luki. Immediately I must make a reservation: in fact, the first - the author has already published both a "book in a book," that is, in a collective collection of two authors, and a musical and critical brochure - but it is here, "In a quiet pool," that the reader can first see for the first time what really is the creative world of this writer - or, at least, the foundations of this world, its main outlines.