We Laughed So Much...

The book by journalist and author of the book "Gorenshtein's Puzzle" Yuri Veksler "We Laughed So Much..." is a recollection of the author's meetings and conversations with the geniuses of humor: Arkadiy Raikin, Grigory Gorin, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Vladimir Voinovich, Valentin Gaft, Alexander Filippenko, Alexander Shirvindt, as well as Petr Vayl, Vasily Bykov, Igor Guberman, Yuliy Kim, artist Vyacheslav Sysoyev, and others.

In Yuri Veksler's book "We Laughed So Much...", in addition to the author's memories, individual texts by Grigory Gorin (including his last work - "Stories", first published in print) are included with the consent of the copyright holders; Mikhail Zhvanetsky (prose poems about a gift, about an Odessa woman, about death); Vladimir Voinovich (a fragment from the novel "Moscow 2042", the story "With Liver in the Heart"), short stories by Friedrich Gorenshtein "Counterrevolutionary", Mikhail Gorodinsky "Harnessed", Viktor Shenderovich "Puddle" and "The Genius of Behavior", two essays by Petr Vayl (about Gorin and Dovlatov), an excerpt from the novel by brothers Strugatsky "Monday Begins on Saturday", poems and songs by Alexander Galich and a chapter from his memoirs "General Rehearsal", a chapter from the book by artist Vyacheslav Sysoyev "Walk Quietly, Speak Quietly. Notes from the Underground", poems and songs by Yuliy Kim, Igor Irtenyev, Veronika Dolina, and Vera Pavlova, as well as a letter from Yuri Lotman to the author of the book about the image of Pushkin.

The book contains many illustrations (over 100 rare photographs). The book is also equipped with 23 active links (QR codes). With the help of a smartphone, you can enhance your reading with audio and video materials.