Leonid Yuzefovich is a writer, historian, winner of the Big Book and National Bestseller awards. In his new book, “Campaign to Bar-Khoto,” he turns to his favorite oriental theme; this is a fictional story with fictional characters - but in real settings. In the memoirs of a Russian officer, Captain Solodovnikov, who served as a military adviser in the Mongolian army in 1912-1914, when the Mongols defended their independence from China, the siege of the Bar Khoto fortress occupied by the Chinese, love to the wife of a Russian diplomat in Mongolia, World War I, deportation from Leningrad to Transbaikalia in the mid-1930s. Here the hero rethinks his own life, and thereby the fate of man in critical eras.