The book of short essays, filled with gentle humor and vivid impressions of trips across vast America, recalls the pages of the famous “One-Storey America” by Ilf and Petrov. State capitals and the American heartland, the Hoover Dam, a monument from the Great Depression era and Civil War monuments, national and private parks, magnificent gardens and ancient cemeteries, Catholic cathedrals, Orthodox churches and Mormon temples, Polish parades on the streets of New York and dreams about Russia, museum walks arm in arm with great artists and pictures of the modern “war on memory” - all these stories, observed and lived by the author, will not leave even the most demanding readers indifferent. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.