It is impossible to imagine the landscape of modern literature without the burlesque stories of Alexander Pokrovsky. A new word, new humor, new situations... All this will “get through” not only the former wolfhound-submariner, but also just a civilian character who has not lost his sensitivity to the twists and turns of the great, powerful, salty and hardened native language. Reading Pokrovsky, we cry, rejoicing that we are still alive, and we laugh at the fact that we are still able to cry about the same thing.