Isaac Babel is a wonderful Russian short story writer of the first half of the twentieth century, the author of the poignant ‘Cavalry’ and the immortal ‘Odessa Tales’, the literary father of the famous Benny Krik. In his works, Babel paints a romantic world of noble thieves and smugglers, talks about his childhood and the civil war, which he went through with Budyonny’s First Cavalry Army.