This is the most famous book by Sergei Pesetsky (1900–1964), one of the most prominent Polish writers of Belarusian origin, political publicist, intelligence officer, Home Army soldier, whose work has received worldwide recognition. These are the personal memoirs of a former smuggler from the Rakovsko-Ivenets borderland . All the characters in the story are real people, all the events are not fictional. In the fictionalized “diary” of events, a world of adventure, adventure, love and camaraderie is revealed to the reader.