Andrey Kivin is one of the most widely read writers of modern Russia. He writes about the terrible—funny, as if Ilf and Petrov wrote about the police of the nineties. The total circulation of his incredibly popular works exceeds several million copies, and television viewers have long been familiar with the famous heroes of TV series made from Andrey Kivin’s books—“Cops,” “Street of Broken Lamps,” and “Deadly Force.”