A majestic monument to the fighters of the Resistance to Fascism stands near the famous Appian Way leading to Rome. Under it, in the niche of the silent Ardeatinsky caves, 335 sarcophagi are installed. And on one of them - the name of the Russian sailor, about whom legends are composed in Italy. And he, this person, whose life really looks like a legend, turns out to be alive and continues to work...