For the novel "Harvest" was awarded the Stalin Prize of the first degree for 1950.... Vasily Bortnikov spent two years in the hospital after a severe brain wound. Helpless as a child, as if immersed in a well in relentless pain, he did not write a single line to his relatives, to whom he could no longer bring anything but suffering. From a comrade in the company, accidentally met in the hospital, he knew that in the regiment he was considered killed and his wife Avdotya was informed about this...