Here I would like to cite excerpts from the “Notes” of the former deputy editor of “New World” A.I. Kondratovich, compiled by him on the basis of conversations with Tvardovsky... From an entry dated December 26, 1968: “The second day A.T. speaks about Lagunov’s manuscript: It’s amazing that everywhere there are people who dig, search, find something, although no one forces them to do this. Vice versa. They won't get anything for it now. Lagunov is one of those. He dug for six years and unearthed something like the Pugachev riot in our country in 1921. The Antonovshchina, about which we have written a lot, cannot be compared with the uprising of the Trans-Ural, Siberian peasants. There is not a word about him in our stories. And the reason for this is partly clear: the scale of the uprising is incomparable. In essence, it was a man's rebellion - “senseless and merciless.” Perhaps that is why they are silent about him, because it is difficult to bring him under the kulak uprising or the Socialist Revolutionary rebellion, although there were both kulaks and Socialist Revolutionaries there. And the scale of the uprising is incomparable, which, paradoxically, forces us to forget it.”