About the book: 1981 / The author of this book is from Yaroslavl. His life is closely connected to the fate of his hometown. However, the choice of themes for artistic expression is always of common interest to him. Some of the works collected here were published in “Literary Russia”, “Literary Gazette”, “Crocodile”, “Neva”, etc. R. Solomko’s book is distinguished by an entertaining form of presentation, marked by a kind of humor, and individual, non-typical phenomena that still interfere sometimes he depicts our creative process through satire, affirming the positive by negating the negative.