About the book: 1998 / This story is about the last years of the terrible period of the 20th century - about the time of the agony of Stalinism - human insight and the fragile sprouts of a new life. This is a true story contemporary about Soviet society of the early 50s and the people of that time. This is the story of a young man who unexpectedly found himself in the millstones of a repressive machine: arrest, Lubyanka investigation, unjust trial, death camp and life in freedom with a wolf ticket. But he managed to go through all the circles of hell with dignity, went through without breaking, retained his human dignity, achieved his goal - he became a doctor and scientist. The price of this victory was lost love and ruined youth. This is a novel about love and about a woman who saved a man in an indifferent and cruel world. This is the 20th century at one of the sharpest turns in Russian history through the eyes of not just an eyewitness, but also a participant.