Stories

Welcome to the amazing and tender land of Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi! Teffi's poetry and prose are delicate, sharp, and poignant. The book collects stories dedicated to the vibrant, sincere world of children with its fantasies and dreams, joys and sorrows, as well as to adults who do not want to grow up and their eccentricities. Katya-Vratya lives with a dream of crystal ships made of music, Volodya Bazyrev becomes a "Don Juan", breaking women's hearts - one of those who doesn't have dinner because he is too busy: he "destroys women at night". First graders hold a meeting against the "regime" of adults, while Katya writes a letter to her friend about the handsome "Count Mikhail" and their "passionate love".

The book is illustrated by young artist Victoria Popova.