The edition includes the novels by A. B. Mariengof “The Cynics” and “The Shaved Man.” First published abroad, in the Berlin publishing house Petropolis (“Cynics” in 1928, “The Shaven Man” in 1930), Mariengof’s works were considered “anti-social” in Soviet Russia. For many years his name “fell out” of the literary process. The opportunity to read the novel “The Cynics” became available to Russian readers only in 1988; “The Shaved Man” was first published in Russia in 1991. In 1991, based on the novel “Cynics,” Dmitry Meskhiev made a film. Today, no one doubts that the creative heritage of Mariengof, like Platonov, Pilnyak, Zamyatin, is a classic of the 20th century.