Alexander Kanevsky is a wonderful, widely known prose writer and screenwriter, playwright, humorist, and satirist. In all these genres, he proved himself to be a true master of words, uniquely able, following the realities of life, to combine the funny and the sad, deep thoughts on the meaning of life and a smart joke. And in reality, laughter and tears do not exist far from each other, but in almost every fate they seem to be closely adjacent, constantly interspersed. In the narrative “Laugh, clown!..”, the writer managed to recreate with endearing authenticity the Times and Epochs through which he himself, his family, his close friends, among whom there were many truly outstanding and famous personalities, passed through.