History of Odesa knows many glorious, merry, and sometimes tragic pages. But in spite of what cataclysms nature typically Odesa optimism does not change, and this book is to that proof. What Odesa was, as she changed, as Odesa live now - set these questions in all corners of Earth. But Odesa remains Odesa - city, glorified by classics, city, where the informed optimists live, same modest humorists and merriest in the world historians.