The book is a composition of fragments of testimonies and memories of notable personalities and events of the First World War and the Civil War, as well as two revolutions of 1917 - the February and October revolutions. The book also includes fragments from works of art on the same topic that are autobiographical in nature (Alexey Remizov, Artem Vesely) or written in the genre of fictionalized biography (Roman Gul, Mark Aldanov). In its entirety, the book should convey the atmosphere of the hard times of 1914–1920 and introduce the reader to the least covered events and aspects of the lives of their participants.< /p>