About the book: 2011 / Contemporaries called Teffi (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya, by her husband Buchinskaya) “the most elegant pearl of Russian humor.” During her long literary life, Teffi published over thirty books - prose, drama, poetry. But she became famous for her humorous stories, equally loved by readers of different ages, education and social status. Among those who paid attention to her writings was the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II himself.