The seventh volume presents the theater of L. Leonov, which has always reflected the pressing problems of the time. So, in the plays of the twenties, the bourgeois swamp ("Untilovsk," "Pacification of Badadoshkin") is exposed, and on the eve of the war the writer develops the theme of the continuity of the feat ("Polovchansky Gardens"). In the days of the most difficult military trials, Leonov spoke scorchingly sharply about the grief of the people and about their unparalleled patriotism and courage ("Invasion," "Lyonushka"). Each play is a special artistic world, none can be reduced only to its own household plot.