About the book: 2011 / The end of 1982 turned out to be difficult for the country: after the magnificent funeral of the elderly General Secretary Brezhnev, power ended up in the hands of Yuri Andropov, 15 years head of the KGB. To demonstrate his own strength, he needed a high-profile demonstration case. And such a case was found surprisingly quickly... The head of the investigative department, Skachko, is given the task of collecting incriminating evidence on the director of the “Eliseevsky” grocery store, Berkutov. Here is a story about the tragic fate of the director of the grocery store No. 1 (now “Eliseevsky”). The prototype of the hero Georgy Berkutov was the real director of the store - Yuri Sokolov. Moscow grocery store No. 1 was called an oasis in the food desert of the USSR. He regularly supplied the party elite and the creative, scientific, and military elite of the country with delicacies. However, as the investigation found, the director of the grocery store took bribes, which he shared with the powers that be. The sentence was striking in its severity.