About the book: 1982 / The book “Forever, to the end” (the story of Andrei Bubnov), published in the series “Fiery Revolutionaries” in 1978, Valentin Erashov made his debut in fiction and non-fiction literature. Before that, he, a historian by training, a former Komsomol and party worker, was known as the author of the novel “We Didn’t Have Time to Go to the Front,” a one-volume set of selected prose “Fighters, My Comrades,” the stories “The Seventy-Ninth Element,” “Comrade Officers,” “The Man in the Tunic” and others, as well as numerous collections of stories, including those translated into the languages ​​of the peoples of the USSR and in socialist countries. “Overcoming” is an artistic and documentary story about V. A. Shelgunov (1867–1939), a career worker, one of V. I. Lenin’s closest associates in the St. Petersburg “Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class,” a talented genius, a man of tragic fate ( he lost his sight completely in 1905). Being blind, until the last day of his life he continued active work in the Bolshevik Party, of which he was a member from the time of its formation..