Anyone who has watched the legendary television series “Gangster Petersburg” will be interested to know that one of the key characters in the film, an old thief in law nicknamed Yurka Baron, brilliantly played by Kirill Lavrov, in his youth went through incredible life trials, which, in his youth, ultimately, and predetermined his tragic end. And it all began in pre-war Leningrad, when the teenager Yura was a pioneer, a boy from an intelligent family. And his fate could have turned out completely differently if not for his mother’s godfather, once the personal driver of Lenin himself, who had the imprudence to write an extremely seditious manuscript for those times... So: 1962. Leningrad. A young, successful thief, having pulled off yet another burglary, goes to the capital to meet a man from his distant and terrible past... “The Youth of the Baron. Losses" is the first book in the new cycle by Andrei Konstantinov.