About the book: 2008 / Leningrad, end of 1941. Cold and hunger. A mysterious emissary writes secret letters to Hitler. An ominous “Plan D” is being developed - the explosion of Leningrad in the event of its fall. A young NKVD colonel, who arrived from Moscow, is preparing an assassination attempt on Kirov and suddenly falls in love with yesterday’s schoolgirl Varya. And Varya is waiting from the front for her fiancé, helping her mother and friends as much as she can, sees dreams and believes in Victory. Will dreams become prophetic? The novel is published in the author's edition. With the preservation of the author's punctuation, spelling and morphology. All distortions of historical names and names are intentional.