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 Shadow," after Hans Christian Andersen) (1940), Drakon ("The Dragon," an original) (1944), and Obyknovennoye Chudo ("An Ordinary Miracle") (1956). Most of these plays were subsequently turned into films, sometimes more than once.