The documentary story “The First Day - the Last Day of Creation” is one of the last works of Anatoly Ignatievich Pristavkin, in which the author again and again returns to the theme of his wartime childhood... “Writers who write about war are, as a rule, writers who fought , front-line soldiers. But those who were teenagers then saw the other side of the war, its other side, because war is such a specific phenomenon that does not have a “face”, but has two sides. So, the front-line soldiers did not know this war in the rear, the “teenage war,” Pristavkin recalled. Anatoly Pristavkin’s generation absorbed with all their pores and blood all the impressions of their war and post-war childhood. Children of war have experienced both good and bad. There was more tragedy. At the age of 10, Anatoly Ignatievich was left an orphan: his father went to the front, his mother died of tuberculosis. Years of wandering around orphanages, colonies and boarding schools, the writer experienced all the hardships of homeless life. “War created me... It fell when I was 10–14 years old, and if the line between these two dates is not filled with events, although how could one not fill it, it will be filled anyway, then the first day of creation will fall on June of the forty-first year (I was, if exactly, 9 years 8 months), and the last one - in May of forty-five, respectively, 14 years 6 months...” writes Pristavkin. “The first day is the last day of creation” - this is the beginning and end of the war. The author tried to tell readers about “how the soul is created,” about what war is and how it can be prevented... The book also includes the series “Little Stories” and two stories “Ptushenka” and “Seliger Seligerovich.”