He left the firing basements of the Cheka. He retained his youth and health to this day. He saved the talent, and you can see for yourself. But he had to pay dearly for all this. Dangers awaited him at every turn. And if not for his comrades, would he be able to look into the eyes of monsters? Survive the Hiberborean plague? Go from end to end of the earth under the terrible march of the ecclesiasts for the uninitiated?