About the book: year / Once upon a time there was an artist Panteley Krivosudov-Tregubov... Such a normal autist. There are actually a lot of them, autists, in our country, bruised by its own history... The autist was criticized for formalism, but he continued to draw as if nothing had happened... One day, Comrade First saw at the opening day a painting by the artist, which depicted a real cow pat, and admired and the flatbread, and artistic courage, and the name of the author. And he proclaimed Krivosudov-Tregubov a great artist... © fantlab.ru, Artem Gularyan About the author: Gennady Prashkevich was born in 1941 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, spent his childhood at the Taiga railway station (Kuzbass), studied at Tomsk University. Member of the Russian Writers' Union, PEN Club, laureate of domestic and foreign literary awards. The author of many books, among them the novels “The Secret Clerk”, “The Theory of Progress”, “The Helmsman’s Book”, biographical books “H.G. Wells”, “The Red Sphinx”. Lives in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok. It is published in Znamya for the first time. Note: The story was shortlisted for the Ivan Petrovich Belkin Prize for the best story published in 2012