About the book: year / Four articles about the life and work of Lev Vladimirovich Kantorovich - writer, artist and screenwriter. Yuri German wrote about Kantorovich as follows: “Lev Vladimirovich Kantorovich was born in Leningrad in 1911. As a self-taught boy, he began working as an artist’s assistant at the Theater for Young Spectators and at the same time became interested in illustrating books. At nineteen years of age, Lev Kantorovich released two interesting albums ; the young artist’s strong, catchy, energetic drawings were immediately noticed and appreciated.. At the same time, Kantorovich designed a performance at the Nardom Theater - Vsevolod Vishnevsky’s play “The Raid”. Sibiryakov." He did not like to draw "out of his head" in the calm atmosphere of the studio. He was a traveler by nature, by nature. The Sibiryakov's campaign was the beginning of Kantorovich's endless departures. A year later, Lev Vladimirovich went on an expedition on the "Rusanov", after military service , which forever tied him to the border troops, Kantorovich went on a high-mountain expedition to the Tien Shan, then with the border troops he participated in the liberation of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, then fought the entire Finnish campaign and died as a very young man in battle at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The performance of this person was truly amazing. In less than ten years, he published: “Five Japanese Artists”, “Cold Sea”, a collection of essays about the Arctic, a book of stories about border guards “Post Number Nine”, “Border” - a collection of stories, “The Story of a Border Colonel”, a collection of “Enemies” ", the story "Kutan Torgoev", another story "Alexander Korshunov", the book "Fight", a collection of essays "Border Guards Go Forward", a collection of stories "The Old Man's Son" and even a skiing tutorial called "Memo to a Ski Fighter". By the way, this last work is very typical of Kantorovich, who never shied away from any kind of work. He wrote the “memo” because the border guards needed it, and the word “need” decided the issue. Kantorovich illustrated his books about campaigns and travel, about border guards and sailors, about the Arctic and about border violators. Lev Vladimirovich spoke about to himself and about his work on the radio just before the start of the Great Patriotic War: - In my opinion, the greatest pleasure is to put things in a suitcase or backpack and hit the road. I managed to spend a third of my life traveling. I was on several polar expeditions, skied in the Khibiny Mountains, sailed on a yacht, wandered around the Caucasus on foot, flew, rode horses, rode dogs, rode deer, and the first books I wrote were essays, descriptions of travel... At first I was an ordinary border guard, and then I traveled a lot along the border. I like our border guards. I try to learn from the best of them. I like their life. I try to show life on the border as it is - with all the difficulties and sorrows, hardships and dangers. You know that in the Red Army some conscripts ask not to be dismissed and promise to serve for life. I made such a promise to the commanders of the border troops a long time ago. The artist-writer-border guard Lev Vladimirovich Kantorovich kept his promise. He died on June 30, 1941 in battle as part of a detachment of border guards in the bloody battles near Vyborg. In 1932 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, a little later - the Order of the Badge of Honor, and for military exploits in the first days of the war (posthumously) - the Order of the Red Banner."