Monday Begins on Saturday

Here is the most famous and popular book by the Strugatsky brothers—a fantasy fairytale full of humor and satirical hints, a story that has raised more than one generation of readers and has been scattered into quotes.

It tells about the everyday life of NIICHAVO (the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Magic)—a place where the solid routine of a respectable institution is whimsically mixed with folklore-fairy-tale chaos. In the branch of the Academy of Sciences, there are departments of Linear Happiness and Absolute Knowledge, of Predictions and Prophecies, and of Eternal Youth—while its staff can pass through walls and become invisible. Every Friday, the dragon is taken to a training ground for experiments, and the course in controlling a magic wand takes eight semesters and requires a thorough knowledge of quantum алхимия.

The caretaker of the museum of antiquities is Baba-Yaga, whose name is Naina Kyivna Gorynych, and for using an unchangeable “penny” you can easily end up in the police…