What makes a person happy? Big or small? Many people, in search of their own happiness somewhere beyond the distant horizons, cannot discern its presence right in front of them, and like blind people, stepping over it, continue to consider themselves deeply unhappy. The collection of stories “Happy People or What Nikodimych Was Silent About” makes it possible to sides to look at these “happiness” - how a person can be happy, big, small, with a thought, a deed, a result, the absence of it, etc. The action of the stories is intentionally not united by the author by time and place, which gives the events happening to the characters a special poignancy .