Mikhail Zoshchenko. Handy genius

Mikhail Zoshchenko - a sophisticated handsome man, a dandy, a brilliant officer, the hero of the First World War, his stories were read out by one little -known watercolist with an absolutely unforgettable name and surname - Adolf Hitler. By the way, wasn’t the artist Olga Chekhova translated the texts of Mikhail Mikhailovich into German? But with all this, he lived the life of an absolutely happy person, which remains for us a complete mystery, which we will try to solve in this book.
The book of Valery Georgievich Popov, a famous writer and screenwriter, laureate of literary awards - differs from “traditional “Zoshchenko’s biographies by another (worthy and joyful) look at the writer’s dramatic fate.
“ People who loved Mikhail Zoshchenko, who lived next to him, were sad: how they “broke” him, what they turned into, not even buried, not even buried him. How was it! But Zoshchenko did not disappear! Very soon, in the late fifties, we, young people, yesterday’s schoolchildren, received Zoshchenko Veseloy, young, we laughed, reading him, and knew nothing about his sad end! Actually, with this I began the book - with the delight of the new generation, which recognized Zoshchenko. The former system was weakened, and the caustic, slightly absurd irony of Zoshchenko came to our hearts ... ”(Valery Popov)