Arkady Timofeyevich Averchenko is a remarkable Russian writer, playwright, theater critic, editor of the legendary St. Petersburg magazine "Satyricon", which became the most important phenomenon in the culture of the Silver Age. As an aspiring writer, Averchenko came to the capital from the south of Russia in the hope of trying his luck — and soon became one of the most famous and successful humorist writers. The magazine he created, according to Taffy, " liberated Russian humor... Russia began to laugh." This edition includes works by Averchenko from different years — humorous stories, feuilletons, plays, the cycle "A Dozen Knives in the Back of the Revolution", as well as the novel "The Joke of the Patron". The stories presented by Averchenko, from everyday scenes to biting political satire, are often grotesque,but no less true. Soft humor, cheerful playful laughter and bile sarcasm — the whole palette of the comic is subject to the pen of Averchenko. No wonder his contemporaries called him "the knight of the smile", "the king of laughter", "the Russian Mark Twain".