The book by Boris Nikolaevich Kamov was created over almost two decades. This is the most complete biography of A.P. Golikov-Gaidar. In addition to well-known facts, the author reports on many dramatic events that were impossible to tell about before perestroika and during the period of rampant “Soloukhinism.” The author set himself the task of finding out how fair the accusations of crimes allegedly committed by A.P. Golikov (the future writer A.P. Gaidar) during the Civil War. With accusations of this kind since the late 1980s. Dozens of unknown “Gaidar scholars” spoke, led by the author of the book “Salt Lake” V. A. Soloukhin. The results of the investigation conducted by B. N. Kamov were stunning. Not a single accusation, even if it could be verified by documents, was confirmed. The genre of this book is a historical detective story. The author compares the accusations against A.P. Golikov with archival documents, demonstrating the general illiteracy and deceit of the “accusers” led by V.A. Soloukhin. It reveals a system of fraudulent techniques, falsifications and even gambling distortions, which were used by imaginary Gaidar scholars to deceive readers, cynically fool them. For parents, teachers, librarians, philology and historian students, high school students.