The terrible years in the history of the Soviet state, from the early twenties to the early fifties, including the fight against Trotskyism and collectivization, the camps and the war against fascism, as well as post-war repressions, were reliably and poignantly embodied by Vasily Aksenov in the Moscow Saga trilogy. Together With the country, three generations of Russian intellectuals of the Gradov family go through all the circles of this hell of the Stalin era.