About the book: 2014 / Dmitry Dolinin is a living legend of Lenfilm, he was the director of photography for such films as "Republic of ShKID", "In There is no ford in fire”, “The Beginning”, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”... At the same time, Dolinin has been writing prose for many years. His heroes - both our contemporaries and the revived shadows of the past - are ordinary people immersed in the flow of life, which becomes history before our eyes. Dolinin's stories tell about the most important, painful for our memory, turning point in Russian history - the First World War and the one that followed it revolution. Life has firmly welded the present to the past, so that without blood they cannot be torn away from each other. Do you need it? The whirlwinds of those events, interpreted again and again by Russian literature for almost a century, threw millions of people under foreign skies. But even for those who remained in Russia, the sky became different forever.