About the book: 1981 / This book includes humorous and satirical stories by Leonid Lench, in which the author denounces and ridicules vulgar people, predatory poachers, opportunistic bureaucrats and other violators of the ethical standards of our society, irresponsible people, indifferent to everything in the world except their own person. With his characteristic gentle, kind humor, L. Lench also writes about good people, about their mistakes and blunders. The second section of the book consists of “Stories from my life.” Here the reader will find short stories with a dramatic and sometimes tragic sound. They are based on true life facts, but these are stories, not memoirs - each with its own complete plot, with its own theme. Pre-revolutionary Russian reality, the first years after the revolution - this is the time of action of this new cycle of stories by L. Lench.