Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin is a classic of Soviet literature, author of the famous novel “Two Captains”. In his youth, he was a member of the literary group “Serapion Brothers” and wrote fantastic stories; at the end of his life, Kaverin was a recognized master, teacher and mentor of a new generation of writers. This edition presents the most famous works of Kaverin from different years. “The Scandalist, or Evenings on Vasilyevsky Island” is one of the most striking novels about the Soviet scientific and artistic avant-garde and its leader, the famous “scandalist” V. Shklovsky. “Double Portrait” is a bold story for its time about the tragic fate of a scientist who ended up in a camp. Before the Mirror is a psychological novel about love and art. “A Two-Hour Walk” is a novel about Soviet scientists during the stagnation period and their daily life. “The Science of Parting” is a truthfully described incident from the Great Patriotic War, during which Kaverin served as a war correspondent in the Northern Fleet. And the book ends with the famous fairy tale “Verlioka”, in which the writer again turned to the images and motifs of the idols of his youth - Hoffmann and Schwartz.