Isaac Babel (1894-1941) is known as the remarkable master of the short novel and as a subtle and ironic storyteller. Babel travelled with the army as a civilian, enduring the same difficult path as the soldiers. These stories are a testament to the cruelty and bloodshed he witnessed, and he uses them to reflect on the inhumanity of war. The characters in "Red Cavalry" became heroes whose fates drew the writer to war, people whose merits and vices were shown in stories that are sometimes funny and sometimes cruel. IN RUSSIAN.