Dvoinik Zoshchenko, ili sovetskii Chekhov - Malyshkina O. G.

The book is dedicated to the writer, whose name was for several decades crossed out from the history of Russian literature - Panteleimon Romanov. Only in the late 80s of the 20th century was his return to the reader: numerous collections of short stories, unfinished novel-apope "Rus" appeared, the first articles about him appeared. The author of the book on the basis of extensive biographical, historical, archival material tried to reveal the individuality of the original domestic writer, to solve the riddle of his phenomenal popularity at the peak of writer's fame - in the 20s of the XX century, when in readability in the Land of the Soviets Romanov invariably occupied a leading place, ahead of A. Tolstoy and M. Gorky.

Book helps to recreate a more complete picture of the literary life of the 1920s and 1930s, to fill in some gaps in the history of domestic literature. dramatic fates of unjustly forgotten writers.