Books by Yuri Trifonov are well known to the reader. A large place in the writer's work is occupied by the historical theme. In 1973, his novel Impatience was published - about the life and work of Andrei Zhelyabov and Narodnaya Volya. Yu. Trifonov created a picture of the heroic single combat of "Narodnaya Volya" with tsarism. The hard work of thought, the sense of their moral responsibility for what is being done, the epiphanies and mistakes of the revolutionaries occupy an equal place next to the description of their daring exploits and the hard "black" labor necessary for their implementation.