The book includes two novels by the famous Soviet writer Yuri Valentinovich Trifonov. "Impatience," dedicated to the epic of the People's Food War, the epic of great suffering, as well as the novel "The Old Man." In the novel "The Old Man," the writer finished telling, spoke to the end his longing for History. Civil War participant Pavel Evgrafovich suddenly received a letter from his first love - Asya... And the hot smoky summer of 1972 - life in the country among a large family and small quarrels - fades before the events of fifty years ago, when the commander of the Red Army and Asya's husband, Sergei Kirillovich Migulin, was unjustly convicted and shot... Afterword by V. Oskotsky.