Georgy Nikolaevich Vladimov (1931–2003) - writer, human rights activist. Winner of the Russian Booker Prize. The story “Faithful Ruslan” is dedicated to the amazing fate of a guard dog, which turns out to be of no use to anyone after the camp is disbanded. The fate of the text is surprising: in the sixties it could see the light of day in the “New World”; in the seventies - was transported to the West, and published in the USSR only in the late eighties, instantly becoming a literary sensation. The book also includes the novel “Three Minutes of Silence” - a true and exciting story about a voyage full of dangers and about the people of the sea, the last romantics.< /p>