Sergei Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His stories, short stories, and notebooks have been translated into many languages, filmed, and studied in schools and universities. Dovlatov’s amazingly funny and at the same time piercingly sad prose has long become a classic and makes the writer similar to such masters of tragicomic prose as A. Chekhov, Teffi, A. Averchenko, M. Zoshchenko. This edition includes early and late works, stories from different years, a sentimental detective story and texts from books planned but never realized.