1921, in the hospital for war invalids, the commander of the Eighth Army, Maxim Kravtsov, “killed” in March 1920, came to his senses. A former Social Revolutionary and staff captain of the tsarist army, a former member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, personally acquainted with Lenin and half of the heroes of the Civil War and himself awarded two Orders of the Red Banner... In 1922, Lenin, after two strokes, was already a political corpse, Stalin and Trotsky were not are friends, and Army Commander Kravtsov is faced with the question of who he should be on his way with...