Everything that is written here is not anecdotes, but the true truth. I also kept the real names. Although not all. The reader may think that what is written is a weak imitation of Gogol’s “Notes of a Madman.” I can assure you - no. Well, who will (and who will be able to) imitate Gogol? And then, if Gogol had risen from the coffin (in which, they say, he had already turned over once, and they make the terrible conclusion that he was buried still alive), then not only would he not have been able to write and publish “Notes,” but he would not have known the places where his bird-three took us. These are the times we lived in just recently. There is no talk about the current time. Published in the magazine Znamya, number 6, 2005