Bukhov Arkady

"Together we wrote some hilarious parodies and satires, and Arkady Bukhov always played first violin. All the funniest was invented," - wrote in 1967 in his short memoirs about Arkady Sergeyevich Bukhov his younger brother in Peru Valentin Petrovich Kataev. Thirty years after the death Bukova.

Actually, around this time, Soviet readers second half of XX century and became re-acquainted with the work of writer whose short stories and satire in the prewar years, pleasing their nematogenys humor and very well-aimed satirical barbs of their fathers and grandfathers. Actually a brief introduction to the collection of selected works of the writer would be traditional to last at least fifty years, beginning: "His name says nothing of the modern Russian reader...". And this is quite consistent with the truth: for thirty-odd years was not released as a single book Bukova.

Meanwhile, his work deserve a better fate, and the reader has the right to know one of the best Russian humorists first half of the twentieth century. Certainly in the top ten of the brightest representatives of the genre it anyway...".
(Stanislav Nikonenko. From the Preface)