Kostroma writer B.I. Bochkarev talks about a short but bright, eventful period in the life of Pyotr Lazarevich Voikov, an active participant in the revolutionary movement in Russia, a member of the RSDLP (b) since August 1917. The story takes place in 1917-1918 in the Urals, where Voikov worked as the commissar of supply of the regional Council.