Includes: Typhoid quarantine / Varlam Shalamov -- Lyudochka / Viktor Astafiev -- The golden lace / Abram Terts (Andrei Sinyavsky) -- Bag-in-hand / Fridrikh Gorenshtein -- An individualist's notebook / Yury Mamleev -- Through the eyes of an eccentric / Venedikt Erofeev -- The fool and the tiger / Valery Popov -- The fifth compromise / Sergei Dovlatov -- The anxious chrysalis / Sasha Sokolov -- The oven / Evgeny Kharitonov -- The Central-Ermolaevo War / Vyacheslav Pietsukh -- The night souper / Edward Limonov -- How they ate the cock / Evgeny Popov -- The poet and the muse / Tatyana Tolstaya -- Description of objects / Dmitry Prigov -- The six-winged seraph / Lev Rubinshtein -- The story of Major Siminkov / Anatoly Gavrilov -- Next item on the agenda / Vladimir Sorokin -- Solzhenitsyn, or a voice from the underground / Igor Yarkevich -- Zhenka's A to Z / Victor Erofeyev.