Timur Kasymovich Zulfikarov (August 17, 1936, Dushanbe) - Russian poet, prose writer and playwright. In the West, Timur Zulfikarov is called "Dante of Russian literature." The main works of the author have been translated into 12 languages ​ ​ of the world. Over the years, such critics as L. Annensky, V. Bondarenko, A. Gevorkyan, V. Korkin, V. Pletner and others wrote about the work of T. Zulfikarov. More than a hundred reviews and essays on his work were published in major newspapers and magazines. The book includes selected poems and poems of the writer, "The Book of Childhood Mushfiki," "The First Love of Khoja Nasreddin," "The Return of Khoja Nasreddin," "The Book of Revelations of Omar Khayyam," "Tattabubu," "Poem about Prince Mikhail Chernigovsky," "Abkhaz Ballad," afterword P. Movchana.