White Cliffs of Dover

Almost always, to pick us up a new book is encouraged by either the surname of its creator, or a title. What a funny name - Y. Senkin! Maybe a pseudonym? And the name is as the beginning of the poetic line ... intrigued, you begin to read and understand that, yes, the pseudonym is that the author is a famous scientist and, although he wrote these stories in a pandemic reclusion, a cheerful and observant person. But where, it turns out, the poetic name of the collection came from: "... Once in some pirate novel, I read:" Our ship entered the channel <...>, and after so many years of wandering, I finally saw the native white rocks of Duvra. I was shocked: "White cliffs of Duvra!" " Whatever and about who could be described under this cover - whether it is the era of the 1990s, a snowstorm in Cambridge, Empress Elizabeth, Peter the Great, old, Bear or Chinese schoolgirls - all this is entertaining, ridiculous and touching, everything testifies to literary skill, sincerity and vitality. At the same time you will learn a lot of interesting and important - then