Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich (1892 - 1968) - Soviet writer. The subject of his works is represented by the widest range. Here is admiration of nature, and modern life (the stories "Kara-Bugaz", 1932; "Colchis", 1934), and history ("Northern Tale", 1938), and art ("Golden Rose", 1955), and autobiography ( "A Tale of Life"), which he began writing in 1945 and finished in 1963.