About the book: 2017 / Everyone in Georgia knows Levan Berdzenishvili. He is one of the founders of the Republican Party, president of the non-governmental organization "Republican Institute", an authoritative classical philologist, a former dissident and prisoner of the notorious Mordovian Dubralag ZhK 385/3-5, and now the author of this book, which instantly sold out in his homeland, which brought him the glory of the “Georgian Dovlatov”. When asked by a journalist why he wrote memoirs about the years spent in prison, Berdzenishvili replied: “I’m not a writer - I, as is typical for almost all Georgians, am a storyteller... In fact, these are not memoirs about the Gulag, although this concerns the Gulag and my arrest for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda... This book is not about me, but about the people whom I came to know and love in the zone. Some of them may not recognize themselves because there is more truth about them than they know or think about themselves.” “Holy Mist” is not only about the traumatic nature of such an experience, but also about the joy of communication between very different people who suffered a similar fate.