About the book: 1994 / The work of Yuri Grachev tells about the life of evangelical communities on the Volga in the 20s, when the preaching of the eternal Gospel was still loud, and about the subsequent period of persecution on the Church of God and cruel, illegal repressions against believers, about the experiences and hopes of ordinary people - such as the hero of the story Lev Smirnsky, whom the atheistic government tried to wipe off the face of the earth. This work has a second unofficial title - “The Christian Gulag Archipelago”. Throughout his life, the author was convicted several times under Soviet law for preaching the Gospel. The novel is written based on real facts of his own biography.