Humorous Stories

The collection includes the best humorous stories Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya, who entered the literature under his pseudonym Tuffy. The sparkling feuilleton and humor of this writer, who was called "satirist in a skirt" and "queen of Russian humor", was read out at the beginning of the 20th century. The collection includes over fifty stories and stories published in the emigrant newspaper Renaissance from 1927 to 1936, and since then have never reprinted. The collection was illustrated by the contemporary artist Svetlana Nosovskaya.

At the beginning of the XX-century humorous stories and feuilletons, Taffy read literally all the educated Russia. A magnificent sense of humor, a lively spoken language, a wonderful style - this is what attracted the audience to these short literary gems, in which the prejudices of the inhabitants claiming the bohemian life of the Higher Belarus, and the narrow -mindedness of the philistines, and the dullness of the lower classes of society were causing. At that time, not everyone knew that