Celles of the basement. Literary almanac No. 13

... "As you know, all writers were in the House of Writers: from Gorky and Alexei Tolstoy to Soviet classics, but in the robber nineties" Democrats" - the dealers from television captured the oak room of the house, then the famous motley hall and finally took it to their hands Foyer. The writers left only the basement buffet.
Of course, you can live in a spacious apartment or even in the mansion on the sea coast, but see only things that surround you. And you can huddle in the basement without windows, but see the entire sky and sea space, and the expanse of meadows, and forests, and feel the joys and pains of all people living on Earth.
In this almanac, the works of my friends-Starikans, regulars of the lower buffet of the Central House of Artists. For many, our basement is just a refuge of booze lovers, but for someone - the shelter of romantics, philosophers, and wizards. "