The book by the famous writer Andrei Vorontsov is written in the genre of a fascinating literary investigation. The main character of the book, the author of the great “Quiet Don” Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, is depicted not only as a historical character, but also as a legendary image. Legends do not arise on their own; they are a unique part of reality. A. Vorontsov depicted the inner world of the famous writer and showed him as a living person. Of course, the author sought to follow the historical truth about Sholokhov, but, reconstructing unclear passages in the writer’s biography, he followed the well-known principle of literary reconstruction of reality: to speculate on what is depicted only in the case where it cannot be confidently denied that this could have actually happened.