About the book: 2019 / The prose of Eduard Ovechkin, one of the few successful marine painters in the post-Soviet space, is a must-read for anyone with a keen interest in Russian literature. It is about us today, naval and civilian, capable, as Ovechkin proves, of living as a “friendly crew.” It is made masterfully, it is easy to read, with uncontrollable laughter and tears of the heart. She is completely positive, which is also rare these days. And finally, it gets better from book to book. The collection that you have in your hands, his eleven stories and a novella, is proof of this.