G.S. Berezko (1905-1982) - Russian Soviet prose writer, screenwriter of films and cartoons, front-line soldier. The book includes his novel Extraordinary Muscovites (1967), the novels The Red Rocket (1943) and The Night of the Commander (1947). Belozerov knew that he was dying. And just as he could not change anything in his past, nothing could already be changed in what was pushing on him. After a short time - four to five days, according to Belozerov's calculation - his conveniently arranged, surrounded by respect, outwardly prosperous life was to end forever - his arrest awaited him. Then they went with an iron sequence: trial, sentence, expulsion from the party, prison, shovel. And the crime for which Belozerov had to answer, a crime unexpected for himself, was too obvious for any hope to warm in him.