Ардов В.Е. Этюды к портретам.

The name of Viktor Ardov (1900-1976), the author of humorous stories, satirical essays, feuilletons, film scripts and theatrical sketches, is well known to readers. The new book introduces us to another facet of the writer's work. Vladimir Mayakovsky and Fyodor Chaliapin, Mikhail Bulgakov and Mikhail Chekhov, Anna Akhmatova and Ivan Moskvin are just some of those figures of Russian culture with whom Viktor Ardov was personally connected or in contact in public life. The literary sketches collected in the book contain a lot of new information about the masters of culture to whom they are dedicated.