The book by the famous critic and literary historian, professor of the Department of Literature at the State University - Higher School of Economics Andrei Nemzer analyzes and interprets in detail the treasured work of Alexander Solzhenitsyn - the epic “The Red Wheel”. Slowly reading all four Nodes, paying attention to the peculiarities of the poetics of each of them, the author strives not to lose sight of the whole of Solzhenitsyn’s completed and perfect epic. Close attention is paid to composition, plot construction, and a system of symbolic leitmotifs. For A. Nemzer, the “historical” and “personal” plans of Solzhenitsyn’s narrative are equally important, the constant complex relationship of which organizes the semantic space of “The Red Wheel”. The book is addressed to all readers who would like to enter the poetic world of the “Red Wheel”, feel its multidimensionality and harmony, trace the movement of Solzhenitsyn’s thoughts - the artist and historian, think about those formidable historical, ethical, philosophical questions that accompanied the great writer in the long decades of constant and inspired work on “a narrative in a measured time frame,” a story about the tragic confrontation between Russia and the revolution.