In the small town of Veliky Guslyar live completely ordinary people . But there are among the Huslars and those who have seen Pushkin and even Stepan Razin .. Many years ago, the aliens left one of the heroes an elixir of youth, and now that he told about it, several residents of Guslyar decided to try the potion on themselves. Readers will have to find out what happened to the characters after that, and think about what is more important - the youth of the body or the youth of the soul. The image of the city and its inhabitants is complemented by “Letters to the Editor” a collection of small stories in the epistolary genre. In the book drawings of the famous Soviet illustrator and cartoonist Yevgeny Migunov .