Yury Olesha was an outstanding Russian Soviet writer, poet, playwright, and screenwriter, and one of the key figures of the Odessa literary circle of the 1920s. Born in 1899 in Yelisavetgrad, he graduated from the Richelieu Gymnasium in Odessa, where he began writing poetry and became close with Valentin Kataev, Eduard Bagritsky, and Ilya Ilf. In 1922, he moved to Moscow, where he published feuilletons and articles under the pseudonyms Zubilo and Kasyan Agapov. The author gained wide fame for his fairy-tale novel "Three Fat Men" and the novel "Envy". In theatrical art, Olesha became famous as the author of the play "Conspiracy of Feelings" (a stage adaptation of the novel "Envy"), as well as the plays "List of Benefactions" and "Three Fat Men". His dramatic works were staged on the scenes of leading theatres, including the theatre named after Vsevolod Meyerhold. Yury Olesha left behind a rich diary legacy, published under the title "Not a Day Without a Line". In the online collection of the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, you can find caricature of Yury Olesha by the Kukryniksy, Konstantin Savitsky's sketches for a production of the play "A List of Assets" at the Meyerhold State Theatre, shadow puppets for a performance of "Three Fat Men" at the Moscow Shadow Theatre, and other materials related to the author’s work.