On this cloudy day, crowds of people were walking in the same direction. They buried Stalin, columns of thousands of gloomy people moved at a slow pace in complete confusion, still not understanding what had happened. He, too, got lost in the multifaceted crowd, along with the woman he once loved. They were lucky not to get caught in a stampede that claimed hundreds of lives; a window sill that happened to turn up on which they literally jumped became a saving island for two...

The book will include the stories “Lastly”, “The Concerns of the Fifty-third of the year", "Wanderers' Rest". The hero of all the stories - former front-line officer, Moscow police officer Alexander Smirnov - makes a firm decision to continue the fight in a peaceful city, to affirm the ideals of goodness and justice.