The books of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934), who wrote under the pseudonym F. Anstey, became classics of world fairy-tale literature, which were read with equal enthusiasm by both children and adults. Among the numerous works of F. Anstey, the fairy tale “Topsy-Turvy” (1882) is especially famous, telling how a businessman father, under the influence of a magic Indian stone, turned into a fourteen-year-old schoolboy son, and he turned into an elderly businessman father. This is the work has been translated into Russian for the first time.