Circles on the Water

''Circles on the Water'''' - is a collection of stories by the Russian writer, satirist, «the king of laugh» and theatre critic A. T. Averchenko (1881 - 1925). The author determined the meaning of the book: «this is the very rescue of the drowning men! », meaning the menace for the reader to choke with the stream of the gloomy pessimism, which filled the literature. The author himself, making fun at the defects and evil, made the readers laugh.