About the book: 1971 / The author of this story, Vladimir Pavlovich Matveev, is an active participant in the establishment of Soviet power and the fight against the White Guards in the Urals. He was born in 1898 in Perm. In August 1917, while a student, he joined the Bolshevik Party. In 1918–1920 he was in Soviet, military, party and newspaper work in Perm, Yekaterinburg and other cities of the Urals. Later he worked in Petrograd-Leningrad, where he wrote the story “The Golden Train” (another name is “The Commissioner of the Golden Train”). In the preface to one of the editions of the story he wrote about his literary work: “I was engaged in journalism, military and party work and never I thought about writing novels and short stories. But one day, among my friends, I was talking about how we fought in the Urals for Soviet power. When I finished telling the story, everyone was silent. One comrade said: “You should write about this.” “Not everyone remembers the first years of the October Revolution,” I thought and decided to write the story “Commissar of the Golden Train” - about the revolution in the Urals...” V. P. Matveev died in 1939. The story “The Tobolsk Knot” by Yu. Kurochkin is dedicated to the intricate and complex operation of the Ural security officers - the search for treasures hidden in Tobolsk by the family of the last Russian Tsar, Nikolai Romanov. Only fifteen years later, after a painstaking and persistent search, the security officers managed to return the jewelry to their true owner - the people. The author of this book, Yuri Mikhailovich Kurochkin, is a native of the Perm region (born in 1913 in the city of Chusov). He is a journalist by profession; since the founding of the Ural Pathfinder magazine, he has been in charge of its local history department. In Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Perm he published seven books, including the book “The Legend of the Golden Woman” in the “Library of Travel and Adventures” (Perm, 1963). Essays by Yu. M. Kurochkin were published in many magazines and newspapers.