Readers and viewers know Evgeny Schwartz as a wonderful playwright, based on whose plays and scripts everyone’s favorite performances and films were created. For the first time, in addition to the legendary fairy tales for adults - “The Shadow” and “The Naked King”, this book includes memoirs, poems, and diaries. The book is unusual in that for the first time Schwartz's plays are adjacent to Andersen's fairy tales of the same name, and the reader will be interested in comparing these texts, written in different countries and in different eras. Schwartz's texts are brilliant, witty, and always topical. As Alexander Abdulov, who starred in almost all films based on his scripts, said, “every phrase and word of Schwartz is imbued with humor and a crazy thought.” The earthly life of the storyteller ended in 1958. And the fairy tale of his life continues. “The great unifying force of the fairy-tale world does not weaken” - these are the words once spoken by Evgeniy Schwartz about G.-H. Andersen, can rightfully be attributed to himself.