Sergei Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th - early 21st centuries. His stories, short stories and notebooks have been translated into many languages, filmed, and studied in schools and universities. “Reserve”, “Zone”, “Foreigner”, “Ours”, “Suitcase” - these and other amazingly funny and piercingly sad Dovlatov’s works have long become classics. “I froze my toes and the ears of my head”, “I drank the day before - it felt like I had swallowed a hare’s hat with ears”, “alcoholism can be cured - drunkenness will not” - you remember Dovlatov’s jokes immediately and for the rest of your life, and you re-read the books dozens of times. They never get boring.