Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko (1881–1925) - Russian writer, satirist, theater critic. The influence he had on Russian satire and humor is enormous. This influence, conscious or unconscious, recognized or rejected, was embodied in words, images, and plots in such different writers as Mich. Zoshchenko, Pant. Romanov, Ilf and Petrov, Gr. Gorin...Today we are clearly convinced that the highest court - the court of time - Averchenko's work has stood. Because in his best works, the teacher, with grace and outward simplicity, revealed the deep layers of the human soul and human relations in society, because he drew attention to those social vices and moral flaws that have remained in humanity for thousands of years and, of course, will continue to remind us for a long time about oneself - envy, servility, slander, meanness, lies, unscrupulousness, acquisitiveness, lust for power. Contents: Cheerful oysters (collection) Humorous stories (collection) New history (collection) Expedition to Western Europe of satiricists (collection) Circles on the water (collection) Stories for convalescents (collection) In black and white (collection) About essentially good people (collection) Weeds (collection) Notes of a theater rat (collection) Wolf pits (from the collection) About the little ones for the big ones (collection) Naughty people and bastards (collection)Gilded pills (collection)Blue and gold (collection)Crucian carp and pike (from the collection)Occult sciences (from the collection)Miracles in a sieve (from the collection)Evil spirits (from the collection)A dozen knives in the back of the revolution (from the collection)Children (from the collection) Boiling Cauldron (from the collection) Funny in the terrible (collection) Notes of the Innocent. “I’m in Europe” (collection)Pantheon of advice to young people... (collection)Relaxing on the nettles (collection)Stories of a cynic (collection)Pokhodtsev and two othersA philanthropist’s joke