About the book: 1992 / Espionage in peacetime. This was the court verdict, according to which Yuri Krasnopevtsev spent almost ten years in the camps... The author of the book does not pretend to be an artistic discovery of the topic, which has already been called a camp one. Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Dombrovsky - these and other names are familiar to the modern reader. The stories presented here and the autobiographical story “Requiem for the Separated and the Fallen” (which in the manuscript had the subtitle “Notes of a Prisoner”) carry the enduring value of a document - the truth of a document, artistically meaningful - since they were written by a direct participant and witness of the events.