Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Teffi (Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, by her husband Buchinskaya) is a poetess, memoirist, critic, publicist, but above all, one of the most famous satirical writers of the Silver Age, who competed with Averchenko himself. After the revolution, Teffi emigrated, but in emigration her extraordinary talent blossomed even brighter. It was there that many of Teffi’s classic stories were written, depicting the life and customs of the “Russian Abroad” from a very unexpected perspective... The collection includes Teffi’s stories from different years, written both in her homeland and in Europe. The reader is presented with a real gallery of funny, colorful characters, many of whom can be seen as real contemporaries of the writer - people of art and political figures, famous “socialites” and philanthropists, revolutionaries and their opponents.