In Alexander Pokrovsky's maritime prose, which has already become a classic of the genre, there has always been a place for romantic and touching stories. If they did not appear openly, they were always present as a hint and hidden subtext in caustic and brutal narratives. As a happy solution to a hopeless and sorrowful existence. In the new book, the fabulous and magical appear reverently and openly, as the author resorts to the most ingenuous genre of literature. Reading a fairy tale, we seem to turn not only to childhood, which still lives in us, but also to the pure essences of our adult life - fidelity, love and hope. The story “Mangushev and the Lightning” is metaphorically connected with the fairy-tale theme.