Alexander Pokrovsky has earned well-deserved fame as a brilliant storyteller. He is the author of one and a half dozen books published in huge editions. Films are made based on his stories. A. Pokrovsky’s intonations are remembered forever, as they say, right away, because he is endowed with a rare gift to distinguish between the homeric and the trivial. He is one of the few on the literary stage who can return to our mortal lives the meaning of an epic incident. He brings back what we have lost. It generates meanings without which one cannot live. At least for the time when we read his wonderful prose. After all, what A. Pokrovsky writes is literature.