The article represents a narration on zoom-presentation of the book series “Tribute to lion-and-fox bestiaries” on May 14, 2022, published in memory of 9 bestiary conferences held at the Russian State Humanitarian University from 2011 to 2020. The initiator of publication Alice Lvova, who hosted these conferences together with A.E. Makhov, spoke about the concept of the series and the preparative process. The series consists of four small books in multi-colouredcovers. Each book contains 9 articles by participants in all nine bestiaries: A. Makhov, O. Kulagina, A. Lvova, O. Dovgy. Together, these polychromatic books create the mood of bright fun game, a daring experiment. One could ask: «Why reprint already published articles?» According to A. Lvova, the articles of one author, selected from the collections, line up in a new row, enter into new relationships and allow to get a new sight not only four different individual bestiary systems of interpreting works of verbal and visual art, but also something in common in them, which allows to catch beyond the game a fundamentally different glance on the text and talk about the 'lion-and-fox' bestiary approach. And if not to be afraid of pompous words about - the "school". The guests - and many of them have participated in bestiary conferences and collections - talked about the importance of publishing the series for the preservation of A.E. Makhov's memory and for the development of the bestiary movement. The discussion of the series turned out to be bright and lively.
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