Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925) is a wonderful Russian humorist writer, whose true skill immediately captivated his contemporaries, who, not by chance, awarded him the titles of “King of Laughter” and “Knight of Smiles.” The writer Averchenko describes an anecdotal situation, exaggerating it and bringing it to the point of complete absurdity, and gives the reader a healthy, cleansing laugh. The writer’s main theme before the revolution was the vices of human nature, and after the revolution – the contrast between the images of old and new Russia. The book includes the famous collections of stories “Miracles in a Sieve”, “Evil Spirits”, the famous satirical book “A Dozen Knives in the Back of the Revolution” and the fascinating “Expedition to Western Europe of the Satyricists: Yuzhakin, Sanders, Mifasov and Krysakov.”