About the book: 2024 / The book contains amazing documents - youthful diaries describing the events of 1915-1917 in Penza, the very fact of their preservation is surprising, and front-line diaries, miraculously surviving, and also memories of the most difficult ordeal that befell a sincere, honest, principled and very handsome man - serving a ten-year sentence in the Gulag. The talented writer Daniil Fibich created a unique picture of the era through the eyes of an eyewitness who was destined to live in the most difficult, turning point and tragic years in the history of our country. Having enthusiastically accepted the revolution, worked as a correspondent for Izvestia, author of short stories, essays and stories, he volunteered to go to the front, where he was a correspondent on the front line of the Western and North-Western fronts. In June 1943, he was arrested following a denunciation by a colleague and sentenced to 10 years, which he served in full. He didn’t break down, achieved rehabilitation and continued to work until the end of his life. From his high school years, he dreamed of not just becoming a writer, but of creating something that would remain after him. “I would like to write a book that would outlive me, that would be the result of my whole life.” This book is in front of you.