This book includes the famous stories by Irina Muravyova “Philemon and Baucis” and “Polina the Beautiful”, as well as a completely new one – “Elizarov’s Ark”, which can also be viewed as a literary hoax, in the depths of which the biblical story of Noah is hidden , and as a caustic caricature of the human race, which has reached the edge with its risky experiments with the soul. The text of this piece is filled with fear of the results of these ominous experiments already discernible in our future.