Before you is the most famous and popular book of the Strugatsky brothers — a fantastic fairy tale full of humor and satirical allusions, which has brought up more than one generation of readers and has been taken away for quotes.
It tells about the everyday life of NIICHAVO (Scientific Research Institute of Witchcraft and Wizardry) — a place where the life of a respectable institution and folk-fairy whirlwind fancifully mixed. The branch of the Academy of Sciences has departments of Linear Happiness and Absolute Knowledge, Predictions and Prophecies and Eternal Youth, and its staff members can go through walls and become invisible. The dragon is taken to the testing ground every Friday, and the magic wand course takes eight semesters and requires a thorough knowledge of quantum alchemy. The curator of the museum of antiquity is Baba Yaga, whose name is Naina Kievna Gorynych, and for using an unchangeable penny, you can easily get into the police …
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