Yuri Polyakov, author of cult novels and plays (“Regional Emergency”, “One Hundred Days Before the Order”, “Little Goat in Milk”, “Sky of the Fallen”, “The Mushroom King”, “The Plaster Trumpeter”, “Homo erectus” , “Classmate”, etc.), collected under one cover stories and tales of Russian classics and now half-forgotten authors, where all the forms of earthly love are vividly presented, from spiritual and holy to low and sinful.