About the book: 2021 / Here is a collection of essays, reviews and stories. In the intervals between writing stories, it happens that sometimes there is a need to clarify something, but not in a figurative artistic form, but in a straightforward journalistic one. Fortunately, this doesn't happen often. After five collections of stories and fairy tales, to my surprise, I had enough material for one collection of essays and reviews. The author is a historian by training and in his works he tries to penetrate into the depths of events and phenomena. His students rated this approach as “loading.” Yes, we can agree with this view. It also has a positive side - an understanding of what, why and how it happens. It can even be used in discussions. After all, arguing one’s own point of view with such a weighty basis gives even children advantages over the superficial opinion of parents.