A war correspondent and Jewish intellectual "with glasses on his nose and autumn in his soul" finds the perfect language to describe the chaos of the Civil War, creates his own artistic world and invents Odessa humor. They are dragging on ropes the beds, which are resistant and sliding from weakness. Deprived of breadwinners, the peasants, feeling a surge of bitter courage and knowing that courage will not last long, rush, without any hope, to bully their superiors, God and their miserable lot. "The main books of Russian literature" is a joint series of the Alpina publishing house. Prose" and the Internet project "Polka". The works that appear in it are selected by contemporary writers, critics, literary critics, and teachers. This is both an attempt to define what the Russian literary canon looks like today, and a new look at famous works: each book is accompanied by a preface by the authors of The Shelf. The style of "Konarmia" consists of many elements that can give the impression of eclectic oversaturation. But, perhaps, it is precisely this confusion of everything with everything that corresponds to the state of the world during the revolution and the civil war. For all lovers of classical Russian literature and for high school students.