Maurice Simashko (Shamis) - a famous writer who lived all his life in Alma-Ata and Ashgabat, the author of interesting novels from the history of the East. This publication includes books that are still missing from the network - "Commissar Dzhangildin" about the civil war in Kazakhstan, "Bell" about the Kazakh teacher-educator I. Altynsarin and the memoir "Fourth Rome."