About the book: 1991 / “He always did the wrong thing: it used to be that the last of the kulak, who had fallen behind his family, would feed him (he would be in the Arctic Circle , after the whole wasp's nest, and from one thought everything inside him turns over). For this, his comrades mockingly nicknamed him Nikolai the Saint. <…> The fool stood up for his former comrade. He was thrown all the way to Solovki for enemy activities, and before that Nikolai Ivanovich blabbered at the meeting: they say, I don’t believe it! Well, if you don’t believe me, Sviridov, then follow him! There everything will be explained to you properly, Sviridov! That's how it thundered the first time. And in the second, this was after the war, he was caught back for his weakness: he took pity, you know, registered another former comrade as a widow on his square (that is, he again showed misunderstanding). They found fault with another, however, they slapped him with ten years, served five years, thanks to this moment they managed to expose the leader of the peoples himself... And then Nikolai Ivanovich lost his last mind. One of the guards makes noise in his ear as a joke: what, this one and that one egged you on to kill Stalin, right? Nikolai Ivanovich is shaking all over and, without looking, is already shouting: yes! Yes! Yes! And the guards will just laugh and throw him away: what, they say, can they take from such a thing, if not a person, but only one saint’s skeleton remains?!..»