“The Tale of Life” is the main work of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky, which is crowned by the “Book of Wanderings”. The story is dedicated to the creative development of the writer, friendship with brilliant prose writers and poets and wanderings throughout Russia, Central Asia and Transcaucasia.

The peculiarity of this publication is that the events of Paustovsky’s romantic prose are, as it were, projected onto the screen of reality and the writer’s personal life , reflected in his letters and diaries, memoirs and comments of his son Vadim.

Letters and diaries of K. G. Paustovsky, comments to them are published for the first time.