Collected prose by Mikhail Kuzmin, published by Berkeley University Press, USA. The eighth volume of the collection includes the story “The Wonderful Life of Joseph Balsamo, Count Cagliostro” (reprint), as well as a selection of unpublished and uncollected prose (novels and stories). editorial texts are given in modern spelling. The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.