About the book: 1965 / When the twenty-fifth anniversary of the writer’s death was celebrated, Mikhail Svetlov said about Malyshkin: “Malyshkin is the purity of Soviet literature...” Yes, in Alexander’s work Malyshkin captured with a special, spring-like freshness the main aspirations of the literature of socialist realism: its romance, its dream, its faith, its stern truthfulness, its blood connection with the best thoughts and feelings of millions of people. All of Malyshkin’s work is characterized by reminding people of the need to constantly purify all experiences, all human relationships, so that the sense of the main thing, the high meaning of life, is never lost in the bustle of everyday life. The first volume included stories and stories “The Fall of Dair” and “Sevastopol”».