As the Steel Was Tempered

“Previously, I strongly protested against the fact that this thing is autobiographical, but now it is useless. In the book, the truth is given without any deviations. After all, it was not written by the writer. I have not written a single line before, ”Nikolai Ostrovsky admitted two months before his death. Not a single line! .. At that time he was thirty -two years old. He was immobilized and blind and for eight years she was chained to bed. The book, which has become the emblem of the era and a life textbook for millions of people, was written by a man who was deprived of the opportunity to see and move, a former stoker who passed through the males of revolution and civil war, a fierce builder and defender of the new state, who fought for his ideas first with the help of a saber, and then - the words