In Daniil Granin's new book, the artistic and the documentary are closely intertwined. History in these texts becomes a fact of private life, and private life becomes a fact of history. And this allows every reader to feel included in the big time. If in his first books, which became iconic for several generations, Granin taught how to change one’s destiny, now he shows how to follow it. Daniil Granin (b. 1919) is a classic of modern literature. His novels “The Searchers”, “Walking into the Storm”, “Bison”, essays “This Strange Life” and “Fear”, stories “Beautiful Uta”, “Rock Garden”, “A Month Upside Down”, “Rain in a Strange City” — reference books for several reading generations. Already in the 21st century, Daniil Granin’s novel “My Lieutenant” became a laureate of the national literary award “Big Book” (2012).D. A. Granin is an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg, chairman of the board of the Foundation. D. S. Likhacheva.