Петух в аквариуме (автограф)

The author of the famous “Uncombed Biography” of Pushkin presents in this book his own biography, equally “uncombed” and just as unexpected. There is no unity of place, time or even genre. This includes Ashgabat in the 1930s, and Koenigsberg, where the author, a participant in the assault, ended up even before the city was occupied by our troops, and Leningrad University during the years of senseless and merciless persecution of professors, which forced the author, then a student, to intervene and steal from the High Safe documents that are deadly for professors... The book, containing short stories and memoirs, vividly, fascinatingly, with a significant amount of humor and irony describes the life of a boy from Konstantinovskaya Street, an infantry officer-front-line soldier, a philology student, the head of the department of the Military Academy, who had the opportunity to communicate with outstanding Soviet military leaders.

The unique memory, which allows the author to reproduce with mirror-like accuracy conversations half a century ago, gives the book another dimension - the effect of immersing the reader in a unique atmosphere and life 1930s - 1960s.