We laughed so much...

The book by the journalist, author of the book “Gorenstein’s Puzzle” Yuri Veksler “We Laughed So Much...” is the author’s memoirs about meetings and conversations with the geniuses of the funny: Arkady Raikin, Grigory Gorin, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Vladimir Voinovich, Valentin Gaft, Alexander Filippenko, Alexander Shirvindt, as well as Pyotr Weil, Vasily Bykov, Igor Guberman, Yuli Kim, artist Vyacheslav Sysoev and others.

In Yuri Veksler’s book “We Laughed So Much...”, in addition to the author’s memoirs, with the consent of the copyright holders, individual texts by Grigory Gorin are included (in particular, his last work, “Stories,” first published on paper); Mikhail Zhvanetsky (prose poems about a gift, about an Odessa woman, about death); Vladimir Voinovich (fragment from the novel “Moscow 2042”, the story “With a Liver in the Heart”), stories by Friedrich Gorenstein “Counter-Evolutionary”, Mikhail Gorodinsky “Pristyazhnoy”, Viktor Shenderovich “Puddle” and “Genius of Behavior”, two essays by Pyotr Weil (about Gorin and Dovlatov), an excerpt from the novel by the Strugatsky brothers “Monday Begins on Saturday”, poems and songs by Alexander Galich and a chapter from his book of memoirs “Final Rehearsal”, a chapter from the book of the artist Vyacheslav Sysoev “Walk quietly, speak quietly. Notes from the Underground,” poems and songs by Yuli Kim, Igor Irtenev, Veronika Dolina and Vera Pavlova, as well as a letter from Yuri Lotman to the author of the book about the image of Pushkin.

The book contains many illustrations (more than 100 rare photographs). The book also comes with 23 active links (QR codes). Using your smartphone, you can supplement your reading with audio and video materials.