The book by a military journalist, winner of the Friendship of Peoples magazine award for the best story (1999) Sergei Tyutyunnik, who went through Afghanistan and many “hot spots” of the former Soviet Union and today’s Russia, tells about the modern Russian army, the bloody knot of Chechen problems and eternal the tossing and turning of the human soul.

The story by Sergei Tyutyunnik takes us back to the past and introduces a third party involved in the conflict. We are talking about soldiers and officers of the Russian army, who, willy-nilly, were involved in bloodshed and, naturally, judged what was happening from their own point of view.