Konstantin Paustovsky is an outstanding Russian writer, whose novels, stories, short stories and essays are rightfully considered classics of Russian literature of the 20th century and have been repeatedly translated into many languages of the world, the author of wonderful lyrical and autobiographical prose. For Soviet readers, Paustovsky is the personification of human and literary nobility, the conscience of the era. He was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and only for political reasons did not receive this honorary award. Paustovsky worked on 'The Tale of Life', one of his main works, for 18 years.