Dear citizens

The heroine of the world famous fairy tale Lewis Carroll rightly perplexed and even slightly indignant: "What is the point in the book, if there are no pictures or conversations in it?" Let this reasoning of the child, but adults are not quite indifferent to pictures and conversations ...
something, and there is plenty of conversations in the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko. It seems that the street itself speaks from the pages of his books, the "Stone Crowd" is fought. Zoshchenko gives the word to the layman. The inhabitants of communal apartments and bureaucrats, starting poets and plundered scammers ("Arapy -Hoiled" men), handicraftsmen and housewives, frivolous wives of the Conservatives and "Widows by origin", workers and peasants, "specialists" and "socialists" chattering, interrupting each other.
And as "pictures", the book is decorated with rare autolithography, made by the recognized master of book graphics by Evgeny Cybrik for the anniversary publication of M. Zoshchenko "Dear Citizens" (1940) It was this collection that served as the basis of this publication. Other stories that made up well -deserved glory with a cheerful writer with sad eyes ”complement its text