Russian Russian Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky-an outstanding Russian writer whose novels, novels, stories and essays are considered classics of Russian literature of the twentieth century and have been repeatedly translated into many world languages, the author of a wonderful lyrical and autobiographical prose, full of love for Russian nature and Russian culture. Paustovsky's poetry freely and on equal rights includes history and modernity, loyalty to the truth of life and romantic elation over it, intimate-personal and universal. This volume includes the famous novel of the writer - "Meshcherskaya side" and "Tale of the woods", glorifying the beauty of the Central Russian land, "Golden rose", "Orestes Kiprensky" and "Isaac Levitan", imbued with reflections on the essence of artistic creativity, historical sketch "the Fate of Charles Launceville" and gravitating to the parable of philosophical fantasy "Constellation of Hounds".