Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855–1888), in the 1880s, was a favorite writer of the Russian intelligentsia. All of Vsevolod Garshin’s “collected works” fit into a small book, and yet Garshin firmly entered the history of Russian literature as a writer of immense artistic power and charm, one of the rulers of minds of an entire generation. His “Tales for Children,” “The Frog-Traveling,” “The Red Flower,” stories “The Yeoman and the Officer,” and “The Memoirs of Ordinary Ivanov” inspired enthusiastic responses from critics.