About the book: 1931 / Savignon de Cyrano (1619-1655) was born in Paris, in the family of a noble lawyer. Following the widespread custom, he added to the surname the name of his father’s small estate - Bergerac (Movyer), where he spent his childhood. Cyrano studied at a Jesuit college, where he became interested in ancient literature, but for the rest of his life he hated the cruel orders of Catholic education. A stormy youth in the Latin Quarter, service in the royal guard, injury, resignation, listening to lectures by the critic of Aristotle and the admirer of Epicurus, the materialist philosopher Pierre Gassendi - this was the beginning of Cyrano’s journey. He wrote poems and pamphlet letters ridiculing human vices, the clergy, and the policies of the first minister of France, Mazarin, and created the comedy “The Taught Pedant” and the tragedy “The Death of Agrippina.” Cyrano worked a lot on his main work, “The New World, or the States and Empires of the Moon,” and the treatise that continued this work, “The Other Light, or the States and Empires of the Sun,” which remained unfinished. The personality of the writer - witty, unusually brave, inexhaustible in inventions - gave rise to many legends. His early death is associated with the hatred of the Jesuits towards the writer, against whom many of the accusatory lines of Cyrano’s works were directed. The treatise “Another Light, or the States and Empires of the Moon” was published after the death of the author in 1656 with a preface by Cyrano’s school friend Nicolas Lebret, who tried to protect the writer from accusations of anti-religion. Two manuscripts of The States of the Moon, kept in Munich and Paris, and the 1659 edition formed the basis of a consolidated text published by the German scholar Leo Jordan in 1910. The first Russian translation was made from it (1931), edited by Academician V.I. Nevsky, which is offered to readers.