Sergei Dovlatov is one of the most popular and readable Russian writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His texts have been translated into many languages, filmed, and studied in schools and universities. At the same time funny and poignantly sad prose of Dovlatov has long become a classic. "The Three Cities of Sergei Dovlatov" is a biography set in Leningrad, Tallinn and New York. Three friends - Andrei Aryev, Elena Skulskaya and Alexander Genis - share with the reader living memories, letters and conversations, which open the door to a time when Dovlatov did not even think of world fame.