About the book: 1954 / In his first story, "The Fall of Ivan Chuprov" (1953), V. Tendryakov turns to the history of the moral degeneration of a person who selfishly uses his position in society. For the sake of the collective farm’s “good,” the chairman of the collective farm, Ivan Chuprov, deceives the state and, as a result, morally perishes himself and leads to the collapse of the economy..