(The magazine version was published in Yunost 2002, No. 3, 4, 6. An excerpt from the novel was published in the collection “Moscow Year of Prose 2014”, published by Literaturnaya Gazeta.) This novel was written in the troubled 90s years. And it became, practically, the first work that honestly and uncompromisingly showed that terrible time for our country. And yet this is not a political bestseller, but a novel about love, friendship and betrayal. About the whole generation, which suffered all the trials of those turbulent and critical years. Without exaggeration, it can be compared with Erich Maria Remarque’s novel “Three Comrades.” Published in several issues of the Yunost magazine, it was a huge success among young people.