The book by the remarkable Soviet writer Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy includes novels and stories written by him in 1924-1928. The story VIPER tells about a very young girl - the merchant's daughter Olga Zotova, who stepped into the fire of the Civil War and went through many cruel trials. She became a real brave fighter of the Red Army, but the war ended, and the most serious test for her was peaceful life, in which she did not find her place... The film of the same name was shot in 1965 by director Viktor Ivchenko, starring: Ninel Myshkova, Boris Zaidenberg , Raisa Nedashkovskaya.