The tales and stories collected in the book survived magazine publications and attracted the attention of both readers and fellow writers. The place of action is Russia, the time is 20th century. From Chechnya to the Far East, from Valaam to Solovki. The past, intertwined with modernity, becomes overgrown with flesh and blood. The author immerses the reader in the harsh world of true characters, sometimes quite complex, against the backdrop of which the deep nerve of the great era is exposed. The story “Three Days of Osorgin” is based on real events: a prisoner of the Solovetsky camp, a former tsarist officer, is visited by his wife, who with difficulty achieved a three-day date . But Osorgin already knows that he is included in the execution list for the escape of two prisoners...