The author is a rebel revolutionary, a leader of the Menshevik party. He fought against the monarchy and, as a result, was persecuted by it. After the October coup, it also turned out to be an undesirable element. Having gone through the burnings of Soviet prisons, solitary confinement and hunger strikes from 1918 to 1922, he not only survived, but also managed to maintain human dignity. The experience of staying in dungeons was difficult, but not fatal.