"Merry party" - the story of the Russian poetess, writer Nadezhda Teffi (real name Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya, for her husband Buchinskaya, 1872-1952). In the center of the plot of this humorous story is the expected ball from the mansion boss of the zemstvo, to which the coachman of the neighbor's master was not invited. And he really wanted to get to the party. It turned out to be fun ... Popularity and popularity of Nadezhda Teffi were brought, first of all, by humorous and satirical stories that were placed in collections "Humorous stories", "And so it became", "Carousel", "Smoke without fire", "Inanimate beast", " Town "," The Witch ". Her pen also includes a number of poems, translations, the novel "Adventure Novel", memoir prose about Z. Gippius, A. Kollontai, A. Kerensky, G. Rasputin, A. Averchenko and other contemporaries of the writer. In her works, Nadezhda Teffi tried to create portraits of people of different types of character, level of education and estates. The main thing for Teffi is to emphasize the individuality of each person. The reader simply feels the author's sympathy for his characters, his love for people.