In the story that you have now revealed, there is not a single fictitious name, not a single composed scene dictated by fiction. Everything here is confirmed either by documents or testimonies of relatives, friends, eyewitnesses. I wanted to talk about the life path of the national hero Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev. I had the good fortune to know this wonderful man intimately. For many years we had a friendship born in the flames of civil war.