About the book: 1979 / The main book of Semyon Babaevsky about the Soviet warrior Sergei Tutarinov, who returned after the victory to the creation of the world, conceived in December of forty-four, was still ahead. Semyon Babaevsky could no longer help but write it, because it was born from the strength and faith of the people, from women’s tears, hopes and expectations, from the asceticism of wounded front-line soldiers and the longing of a peasant soldier for the land, for good, meaningful work, expressed with amazing power by the writer in one of the best essays of the war years, “The Boss” (1942). This must be why the idea of ​​a novel about Sergei Tutarinov and his fellow countrymen, “Cavalier of the Golden Star,” is so rapidly being realized. It is difficult to find in Soviet literature of the first post-war years a major prose work that received greater political, social and literary resonance than the novel by the Kuban writer “Cavalier.” Golden Star." The novel went through a record number of publications in our country and abroad, was translated into twenty-nine languages, filmed, staged, an opera was created based on the novel, it became the object of scientific research.