This book will captivate the reader with the eternal theme of the art of seduction of the opposite sex. It is known that people admire virtue, but they are conquered by coquetry. Victor Hugo believed that men, flirting, hunt, and women grab prey. But is it true? And how to distinguish love from flirting, without becoming a deceived man or an abandoned woman? These questions will be answered by such great masters of the word as Bunin, Veresaev, Chekhov, Averchenko, Kuprin, Kharms, Taffy and others. These well-known names formed the literary mosaic of the "History of Russian Flirtation." Compiled by: Narbekova A.V.