Vovka Grushin's Archimedes

The story “Vovka Grushin’s ‘Archimedes’” was published in 1939 in the magazine “Pioneer.” And eight years later, the writer’s first book came out. It was called the same—“Vovka Grushin’s ‘Archimedes’.”

The first stories brought Yuri Sotnik fame and recognition from readers. A cheerful inventor and fantasist, he created funny and instructive stories for children, asserting their right to be exactly who they are—mischievous, disobedient, ready for the most unexpected antics.

“Small heroes of Sotnik—because we keep laughing at them—seem even more alive, more real, truly real. It’s as if we didn’t just read about them in a book, but lived near them for a long time, in the same apartment or the same yard,” wrote the famous literary scholar Boris Sarnov about Sotnik’s characters.

The collection includes stories:

Raykin’s prisoners

Castorka

Artilleryman’s granddaughter

Archimedes by Vovka Grushin

White rat

Taily

The Mask

Night at the cemetery