About the book: 2017 / Dear reader! Once you pick up a book, don't put it down. Read it carefully, with love, and you will become even richer and more beautiful in soul. A novel about war and the fate of a great warrior and a great man. About an unusually complex, unusually heroic and tragic fate. As soon as the fascist hordes attacked holy and great Rus', Alexander Bashkin volunteered for the front. He is enlisted in the Tula Communist Regiment, which in July is sent to the fire zone, to the Western Front. The heroic deed and sacrifice will not be forgotten. Warrior Bashkin fights the Nazis courageously and bravely. And it survives miraculously. Alexander Bashkin accomplishes feat after feat, the command more than once presents him with a military award. The novel “Farewell of the Slav” is built strictly on a documentary basis, with real characters. The novel about the Hero teaches courage and bravery, to live in truth and conscience, and not to bow to difficulties. Teaches to live out of love for people, awakens and worries pride in Russia, for the great Russian people!