Konstantin Paustovsky is an outstanding Russian writer, whose novels, stories, stories and essays are rightfully considered classics of Russian literature of the twentieth century and have been repeatedly translated into many languages of the world, the author of wonderful lyrical and autobiographical prose, filled with love for Russian nature and Russian culture. For Soviet readers, Paustovsky is the personification of human and literary nobility, the conscience of the era. He was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and only for political reasons did not receive this honorary award. Paustovsky worked on “The Tale of Life,” one of his main works, for 18 years. According to Konstantin Kedrov, “His prose excited Bunin. And not by chance. In the first chapters of “The Tale of Life,” Bunin guessed the revival of Russian literature.” The life of a writer passes before us - from childhood until the time when he realizes his literary success. Autobiography, the intimate and personal are combined here with the historical and generally significant, reflections on the past are combined with the present.