Typhus epidemic turned into a tragedy for millions of Russian people. The study, where voices from the past are interspersed with archival documents, chronicles daily life in the rash era. Compaction, hunger, destroyed cities, constant fear of death - and against this background, it is told about the feat of doctors, fighters of sanitary and epidemiological detachments, about their courage and humanity. For the first time in science, the importance of typhus as an independent factor that determined the revolutionary everyday life of cities is revealed about the responsibility of the authorities in the era of an epidemic.