About the book: 1981 / Sergei Nikolaev - people's writer of the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, playwright. This collection includes his plays “The Great Wave”, “Commissars”, “Waters Flow” (“Glow”), the action of which is connected with revolutionary events. “Salika” is a comedy created on the material of the pre-revolutionary peasant life of the Mari. The play is deeply folk in its spirit and poetic in its language. It was written in the 30s, but still does not leave the stage of the Mari State Theater. S. Nikolaev’s plays are widely popular among Soviet audiences.