Stages of a long journey or how steel was destroyed

The collection includes stories based on real historical documents and eyewitness diaries. They continue the humanistic tradition of Russian literature, echoing the prose of A.I. Solzhenitsyn and V.T. Shalamov. Under the author's pen, the chronicles of the darkest epochs of our history transform into vivid, sometimes shocking, sometimes touching pictures of human existence. Their heroes - a simple teacher, a prisoner of Stalin's camps, an exiled writer - are united by spiritual resistance to an inhumane system, in which they preserve the most valuable thing - the ability to empathize. Empathy that knows no conditions, boundaries, fences, or barbed wire. The collection also includes a biographical film novel about L.N. Tolstoy titled 'King Lear from Yasnaya Polyana'.