About the book: 2003 / BBK 84. R784 (2Ros=Rus)6P 58 V. PopovRemember us like this. St. Petersburg: Zvezda magazine publishing house, 2003. - 288 p. ISBN 5-94214-058-8 “Remember us like this” is a smile the width of forty years. The famous St. Petersburg prose writer, master of the grotesque, Valery Popov, begins his cheerful memoirs with memories of meetings with fellow geniuses in the early sixties, then there are caustic tales about the monsters of stagnation, and he ends with a damning essay about the idols of our time. Popov’s favorite technique is the grotesque: turning the terrible into the funny. The book also includes the story “Free Swimming” - about some funny oddities of St. Petersburg life. The publication was released with the support of the Press and Public Relations Committee of the Administration of St. Petersburg © Valery Popov, 2003© Zvezda magazine publishing house, 2003© Sergey Sharaev, artist. registration, 2003