How to live in this complex modern world, with its problems and crises that aggravate our eternal Russian disorder? How not to lose the main spiritual and moral values on which Great Russian literature raised us? There are no exact answers. But you can listen to the wise advice of the wonderful Russian writer Vyacheslav Pietsukh; a qualified reader (according to the author's favorite definition) will find them in this book. It includes new works, as well as stories from different years, united by a common theme; it is in the title of the collection. In one of his brilliant essays, Pietsukh wrote that “in Russia there are no completely lonely people, for 200 years hopeless loneliness has not existed as an ethical category, since you always have a faithful comrade with you - Pushkin, who, if anything, and will comfort and please, if anything.” That’s how he is: he will amuse you, make you think, and help you in difficult times...