About the book: 1966 / Our time, the time of the mighty movement of peoples and great historical shifts, requiring unprecedented strain of human strength, has given birth to writers of a very special kind. The books created by these authors are inextricably linked with the difficult but heroic fate of their creators. Among the writers whose lives are inseparable from the lives of their heroes, merged with it not only in the minds of readers, but also in reality, is Arkady Gaidar.