Cock in the aquarium

The author of the famous "Wild biography of Pushkin is in this book, your own biography, as "unkempt" and the equally unexpected. There is no unity of place, time, or even genre. This and Ashgabat 1930-ies, and Konigsberg, where the author is the participant of storm - hit even before the city was occupied by our troops, and the University of Leningrad in the years of senseless and merciless persecution of the professorship, which forced the author, then a student, to intervene and steal the Safe from High deadly for professors documents...
In the book, contains short stories and memoirs, bright, fascinating, with a significant dose of humor and irony described the lives of the boys Konstantinovskaya street; infantry of front-line officers; student-teacher; head of Department of the Military Academy, who had a chance to chat with prominent Soviet military leaders.
Unique memory that allows the author to play with the mirror accuracy is the talk of half a century ago, give the book another dimension - the effect of immersing the reader in a unique atmosphere and lifestyle of the 1930's - 1960's.