About the book: 2002 / Who doesn’t know the famous traveler Baron Munchausen? Who didn’t he captivate with his stories into that fairy-tale world where the most incredible adventures take place at every step? But it turns out that the hero of these exceptional stories, Baron Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Munchausen, actually lived and belonged to an old German noble family. He was a military man, served in the Russian army, and upon returning to his homeland, he became famous as a cunning storyteller. It is not known whether he wrote down his stories himself or someone else, but the German writer E. Raspe processed and published them. The fame of the famous baron became so great that many began to retell his stories in their own way, but the author of the book is considered to be E. Raspe. This book includes those stories that the baron himself told in a friendly circle.