Everyone who watched the legendary television series "Gangster Petersburg" will be interested to know that one of the key characters in the film - an old thief in law nicknamed Yurka Baron, brilliantly played by Kirill Lavrov, went through incredible life trials in his youth, which, in the end, predetermined his tragic end. And it all began in pre-war Leningrad, when the teenager Yura was a pioneer, a boy from an intelligent family. And his fate could have developed quite a friend, if not his mother's godfather, the once personal driver of Lenin himself, who had the imprudence to write an exclusively seditious manuscript at that time...