The biography of Marshal Malinovsky would be enough for not a single adventure novel. Here is the mystery of its origin and escape to the front of the First World War, participation in the battles of the Russian expeditionary force in France and in the civil war in Spain. Marshal Malinovsky has a prominent role in such major battles of the Great Patriotic War as the Battle of Stalingrad, the liberation of Rostov and Odessa, the Iasi-Chisinau operation, the capture of Budapest and Vienna.