Nobody knows Altov S.T. as good as I am, Semyon Teodorovich Altov. Literally before our eyes he turned from a young author into an elderly one. His rise turned out to be rapid, and here medicine is powerless. Everything was in his life. And collaboration with the great Arkady Raikin, and work with all the stars of modern pop. He had and still has a wife, Larisa Vasilievna, and this despite the fact that major writers managed to change several wives, which, naturally, enriched their work. Of the government awards - “ Golden Ostap,” which Semyon Altov received third, after Sergei Dovlatov and Mikhail Zhvanetsky. Having lived for so many years, has he understood anything in life? As a real writer, of course not. However, he shares his thoughts, which cannot cause anything other than laughter. Thanks to the fact that Altov does not write about the topic of the day, what he wrote at different times always sounds modern. He doesn’t make people laugh, but invites them to see for themselves the funny things in life around them. As you know, great writers do not hide the fact that they learned from other great writers and took the best from them. Some from Chekhov, some from Maupassant, some from Hemingway. When you buy books by some authors, you find delightful pieces from Chekhov, Maupassant, Hemingway, which gives the reader real pleasure. Semyon read little in his youth, and this is the result. In his books, the same thing always awaits you: Altov, Altov, Altov... This description is given for the publication of the next book named after him. P.S. The author thanks the Baltika brewing company for the beer drunk while working on this book. Semyon ALTOV