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 - "An Ordinary Miracle" and "Dragon", this book includes memoirs from his famous "Diary" and "Phone Book" - an interesting document about the time and the literary and acting environment, selected letters to his wife - a real poem about love, poetry, a comic skit play “The Ceremonial Meeting”. 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.