About the book: 1988 / The novel “And with the bread of testing...” by the famous Leningrad writer V. Musakhanov - a confessional novel about the complex and difficult life of the main character Alexei Shcherbakov , the story of this man’s moral decline and his subsequent awareness of his guilt. The story of an entire life is unfolded retrospectively, in flows, according to internal logic, which helps to understand the contradictory character of an intelligent, merciless person who re-evaluated the circumstances that led him to criminal offenses. The story of Alexey Shcherbakov is instructive; it shows what distorts human life and what moral forces enable a person to rise.