ALL ABOUT THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE AUTHOR "DON QUIXOTE"! In the fate of the greatest writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - the creator of the first modern novel in literature and its eternally living protagonists Don Quixote and Sancho Panza - there are still many mysterious episodes, one of which was a duel on swords in the territory of the royal palace in Madrid, which dramatically changed the whole life of the future author of Don Quixote, forcing him to secretly flee Spain, and then as a Marine to participate in the epochal Battle of Lepanto in 1571. In this bloody battle with the Turkish fleet, Cervantes shows amazing heroism, receives several severe gunshot wounds, one of which forever deprives him of the opportunity to use his left hand. But Cervantes returns to duty and is captured by the Algerian pirates, where he will spend five whole years... The book of Doctor of Historical Sciences T.F. Dmitricheva for the first time in all details restores the unusually interesting and difficult life of Cervantes, which was reflected in many works of the brilliant writer, but especially voluminously and vividly remained captured on the pages of the novel "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha," recognized in the world as the "Best Book of All Times and Peoples," and in our country included in the school curriculum.