About the book: 1970 / The heroine of this book is a funny girl Irinka - a big dreamer and a not very successful “poetess”. The story is set in the first years of Soviet power, the years of the Civil War. Together with her mother, a Bolshevik who knows the Uzbek language well, Irinka comes to Tashkent. The city is just recovering from the recent White Guard rebellion; there are still many enemies of the young Soviet government lurking in it. And then Irinka accidentally learns that a new attack against the Bolsheviks is being prepared. She informs the elders about her terrible discovery. But they don't believe her. Everyone knows that Irinka is a great dreamer, that she can sometimes lie. How Irinka’s adventures end - and there will be many of them - you will find out by reading this story. The author of the book, Khristina Mikhailovna Davidova, was born in Tashkent into a family of Bolshevik underground fighters. Perhaps that is why she was able to show the life and life of the Tashkent children of those times so truthfully.