About the book: 1973 / The poet and prose writer Vladimir Fedorov has a happy creative destiny. He had the opportunity to communicate directly with many masters of Soviet literature. Impressions from meeting them and reflecting on their works formed the basis of the book “Fighters of My Land.” The book consists of four sections. “Memorable Meetings” contains laconic and emotional short stories about M. Sholokhov, Al. Prokofiev, A. Fadeev, N. Tikhonov, M. Isakovsky, A. Tvardovsky, V. Inber, B. Romashov, V. Ovechkin, S. Borzenko, S. Smirnov, A. Makarov and others. In “Portraits of Comrades in Writing "The reader will find biographical touches and reflections on the work of G. Markov, S. Sartakov, V. Zakrutkin, S. Mikhalkov, V. Kochetov, A. Sofronov, N. Gribachev, L. Zharikov, E. Kazakevich, V. Kozachenko, Yu Zbanatsky and others. In the section “My Generation” the author focuses on the work of front-line writers, “soldiers of my land”. Here are portraits-miniatures of A. Keshokov, M. Lukonin, A. Kalinin, D. Kovalev, R. Gamzatov, M. Alekseev, S. Vikulov, S. Alekseev, E. Isaev, A. Lyukin, V. Maryinsky, I Stadnyuk and others. The section “On Life and Literature” is composed of notes and articles about A. Blok, S. Yesenin, A. Dovzhenko and other classics of Soviet literature, as well as about our contemporaries A. Yugov, A. Toporov, N. Ushakov, N. Shundik, S. Voronin, S. Baruzdin, Yu. Nagibin and others, whose work is inextricably linked with our reality.