“The wonderful master of the story Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov (1927-1982) is familiar to the reader as the author of many talented books - “At the half-station”, “Blue and Green”, “Two in December”, “Northern Diary”, “In a Dream You Are Bitter” cried" and others, published since the late fifties in our country and abroad. Kazakov’s work has been awarded a number of international awards, including the Dante Prize in 1971, for his outstanding contribution to the development of modern literature. This is the last book by Yu. Kazakov, in the compilation of which the already doomed writer participated, it brings together his stories, essays and literary notes from different years. In them, Yuri Kazakov appears before the reader as a poet of his native nature, as a writer who is concerned with the eternally close problems of happiness, the meaning of life, and mutual understanding between people.”