The book of early prose by the greatest Russian writer and scientist Andrei Sinyavsky includes stories and the story “Lyubimov” written from 1955 to 1963. These works were transferred by the author abroad and in 1959 they began to be published there under the name of Abram Tertz, some first in translations. Tertz's works of this period are distinguished by an extraordinary degree of internal freedom. The social imperfection of Soviet life appears in them not as a consequence of the distortions of the system, but as a consequence, first of all, of the initial lack of freedom of the people. Sinyavsky’s work consistently expresses the cult of a free personality, self-valued and sovereign. Abram Tertz revealed himself as a true modernist, however, tracing his ancestry from such realists as Gogol and Shchedrin, and feeling a genetic connection with such writers as Zamyatin, Bulgakov, Platonov. It is impossible not to notice the overlap between Tertz’s dystopia “Lyubimov” and Plato’s “Pit.” We present to a wide range of readers the works of Andrei Sinyavsky, which have not been published in our country for a long time.