The book is a collection of short children's stories about events that occurred in Moscow in the mid-fifties of the past century, ten years after the end of World War II. These stories can be interesting to both children and adults. Children will find many funny episodes in the book and can look at the capital of Russia at the middle of the twentieth century through the eyes of twelve-year-old boy. Adults will have an opportunity to look at the same events through their own eyes and also laugh or maybe grieve a bit.