Ivan Bagryany's novel "Tigrolovi" (1944) is the writer's first major work, which impressively depicts a terrible human tragedy during Stalin's repressions. The hero of the novel, like thousands and thousands of those who fell into the NKVD labs, is doomed to sink into obscurity, to disappear. But Grigoriy the Many-sinful, a descendant of the glorious Cossack family, is not like that, to submit to fate. He is guided by faith in his strength and truth. This helps him to endure under any circumstances, to regain his freedom, and with it, his life.