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Sergei Dovlatov is one of the most popular and widely read Russian writers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. His novels, short stories, and notebooks have been translated into many languages, adapted for the screen, and are studied in schools and universities. Dovlatov's surprisingly funny and at the same time poignantly sad prose has long become a classic, and brings the writer closer to such masters of tragicomic prose as A. Chekhov, Teffi, A. Averchenko, and M. Zoshchenko. From 1972 to 1975, while living in Tallinn, Dovlatov worked as a freelance correspondent for the newspaper "Soviet Estonia." Stories from his journalistic practice, initially published as independent short stories, later formed the book "The Compromise," which vividly depicts the behind-the-scenes life of a Soviet newspaper with sparkling "Dovlatovian" humor.