The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic tension of the post-revolutionary years: the explosion of awakened human energy and the tragic collisions of destinies.
Vasili Lanovoy | Mikhail Ulyanov | Aleksandr Grave | Yuriy Yakovlev | Yuliya Borisova | Anatoly Katsynsky | Vyacheslav Shalevich | Nikolai Gritsenko | Grigori Abrikosov | Yuri Volyntsev | Vladimir Pokrovskiy | Mikhail Vorontcov | Evgeniy Fyodorov | Eleonora Shashkova | Vyacheslav Dugin | Aleksandr Kashperov | Nikolai Timofeyev | Viktor Zozulin | Alla Parfanyak | Larisa Pashkova | Mariya Sinelnikova | Nikolay Lebedev | Aleksandr Lebedev | Galina Konovalova | Анна Данилович | Valentina Dancheva | Konstantin Monov | Daria Peshkova | Semyon Khmara | Ivan Kashirin | Aleksey Kotrelev | Inna Alabina | Nadezhda Generalova | Mikhail Dadyko | Ernst Zorin | Oleg Forostenko | Николай Пажитнов | Yakov Smolenskiy | Iosif Tolchanov