... A lot has been written about the life of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin. It was all the more difficult for Lydia Obukhova to find not only new facts of his life unknown to readers, but to determine the very tone of this documentary narrative. The only correct path has been chosen: a complete rejection of the exclusivity of the hero's image. The charm of this image is rooted in its genuine nationality, in its democracy in the highest sense of the word...