When one critic called “Wagrius” the first “normal” publishing house in Russia. At present, the compliment is mediocre, but then, in 1992, when the whole country was enthusiastically stolen, traded or poverted, the desire to earn money, releasing normal books for normal people, seemed almost a feat. Many millions of intelligent readers who were orphaned after the fall of the Soviet publishing system, with the advent of Vagrius, gained “their” publishing house.