Everyone knows that Sergei Nosov is a wonderful storyteller. The new book contains his “small prose,” that is, stories, essays and other texts intended to be read both aloud and silently by a wide range of readers. These are extremely entertaining and intricate stories about the vicissitudes of life and historical circumstances. In short, this is a real museum in which you may get lost, but you won’t get bored. Among the exhibits it is quite possible to encounter not only objects, monuments, holes, ideas and other entities, but also people, usually extraordinary - living and dead.