Averchenko Arkady Timofeevich (1881–1925), Russian writer. In stories, plays and feuilletons (collections “Merry Oysters”, 1910; “About Essentially Good People”, 1914; the story “Pokhodtsev and Two Others”, 1917) there is a caricature of Russian life and customs. After 1917 in exile. The book of pamphlets “A Dozen Knives in the Back of the Revolution” (1921) satirically glorified the new system in Russia and its leaders. Humorous novel “The Patron's Joke” (1925).