About the book: 2017 / The book of the remarkable Soviet and Russian playwright, screenwriter, prose writer Leonid Genrikhovich Zorin (b. 1924) contains works combined the figure of Kostya Romin, well known to the audience from the famous television film “Pokrovsky Gates” (filmed in 1982, directed by Mikhail Kozakov, starring: Oleg Menshikov, Leonid Bronevoy, Inna Ulyanova) and the play of the same name. Three stories and the novel “Old Manuscript” cover the period of the 1950s–1970s and are dedicated to the youth and manhood of the hero.