“The Revolt of Denis Bushuev” is not only an instructive book, but also interesting from an ordinary reader’s point of view. The author is distinguished by the main thing that is required of a writer: the ability to capture the reader’s attention and keep him in intense curiosity from beginning to end. The novelistic knots are tied and undone in the book skillfully and with sufficient literary tact. The adventure element that richly saturates the book is devoid of bias or exaggeration. This is one of those books, reading which, a rare reader will refrain from “peeping ahead.” Denis Bushuev is not a literary fantasy; it has always existed and will never be transferred in our country; we easily recognize him among many of our acquaintances who lived in the USSR. And his rebellion was not invented by Sergei Maximov, but only anticipated.