This book includes fifteen stories by the famous Azerbaijani writer Elchin Huseynbeyli, written mainly in an ironic style and narrative genre. They are typical of his creative role. The author's ironic, sometimes self-ironic view of the characters and events depicted is one of the most characteristic features of his style. Elchin Huseynbeyli is familiar to readers as a master of short prose - the story. The writer stands above the events and heroes described. The fate of the heroes is determined by the writer, not by the characters. This is the writer’s second book in Russian. (The first book is the novel “The Commander’s Steps or the 141st Don Juan”).