The book includes the memoirs of relatives and friends of Gennady Nikolayevich Troshev. Colleagues and comrades-in-arms, politicians and public figures, creative people: journalists and writers, musicians and actors also share their impressions and feelings, often little-known. The sketches and essays fully reveal the details and character of the outstanding personality of a military general, complex and dramatic circumstances in the history of post-Soviet Russia. The publication of the book is timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the birth of the legendary general, Hero of Russia Gennady Troshev.