Memoirs about Evgeni Shvarts, his time, friends and his family. Evgeny Lvovich Shvarts 1896, Kazan - 1958, Leningrad) was a Soviet writer and playwright whose works include twenty-five plays and screenplays for three films (in collaboration with Nikolai Erdman). In 1929 Shvarts began writing plays, the best known of which are the modern retellings of fairy tales: Golyi korol' ("The Emperor's New Clothes") (1934), Krasnaya Shapochka ("Little Red Riding Hood") (1936), Zolushka ("Cinderella") (1938), Snezhnaya Koroleva ("The Snow Queen," after Hans Christian Andersen) (1938), Tyen' ("The...