Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich (1892/1968) - Soviet writer. The themes of his works are represented by the widest range. Here and admiring nature and modern life (the story "Kara-Bugaz", 1932; "Kolkhida", 1934), and history ("Northern Tale", 1938), and art ("Golden Rose", 1955), and autobiography ( "A Tale of Life"), which he began writing in 1945, and graduated in 1963.