Braga. Vtoraia Kinga Stikhov. [Home-brewed Beer. Second Book of Poetry].

Tikhonov was associated with Serapion Brothers literary circle which included Mikhail Zoshchenko and Yevgeny Zamyatin. Much like Zoshchenko, Tikhonov had fought with the Red Army in the Civil War and his writing often included military themes. In 1944 he became chair of the Union of Soviet Writers, but was dismissed by Stalin in 1946 for being too tolerant of Zoshchenko and Akhmatova.