Among our humorists and satirists - Shishkov, Zoshchenko, Panteleimon Romanov, Mikhail Bulgakov - M. Ya. Kozyrev took his special place. As a satirist, he does not know the “colors of innocent humor”; he is closer to the caustic satirist and sharp science fiction writer Bulgakov than to the philistine good-natured humorist Zoshchenko. Hints, reticence, and interruptions in mid-sentence have become the writer’s favorite technique. It is no exaggeration to say that all his “real stories,” fairy tales and novellas always depict life from a fantasy angle. 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.