  We consider Riemann-Cartan gravity with minimal Palatini action, which is
classically equivalent to Einstein gravity. Following the ideas of L.Lipatov
\cite{LipGrav} we propose the effective action for this theory aimed at the
description of the high-energy scattering of gravitating particles in the multi
- Regge kinematics. For that purpose we add to the Palatini action the new
terms responsible for the interaction of gravitational quanta with certain
collective excitations that replace exchange by multiple gravitational
excitations. We propose the heuristic explanation of its particular form based
on an analogy to the reggeon field theory of QCD. We argue that Regge
kinematics assumes the appearance of an effective two - dimensional model
describing the high - energy scattering similar to that of QCD. Such a model
may be formulated in a way leading to our final effective theory, which
contains interaction between the ordinary quanta of spin connection and
vielbein with their effective counterparts that pretend to the role of the
gravitational reggeons.
