The author of the book, Valeriy Ganichev, is a writer, chairman of the Union of Writers of Russia, deputy head of the World Russian People’s Council, doctor of historical sciences, and professor.
After historical and journalistic books such as “Ross the Unconquerable,” “The Tula Encyclopedist,” “Fleet Leader” (about F. Ushakov), “The Statewoman,” “They Won the War, and You?”, “About the Russian,” “Word. Literature. Fatherland,” “Leafing Through the Miles of Days,” and others, the author decided to turn to a light genre—smiles and short memories of those meetings that were in his diverse, many-year life. Indeed, wise thoughts of an old cattleman, the contagious joke of Yuri Gagarin, the firm marshal’s word of Georgy Zhukov, as well as M. Sholokhov’s ironic squint, and Fidel Castro’s light smirk create a distinctive world of smiles and reflection. The author is well acquainted with the 18th century—the age of Catherine II. One of his works “Russian Laughter” told about the emergence of the first literary-satirical journals. One of the first editions, which still hadn’t fully determined its genre, direction, and meaning, was called simply: “Anything and Everything.” The author follows that title too and names his book “Anything and Everything.”