About the book: 1978 / A short story “Distant buglers”, where readers first met the young heroes of Vladislav Krapivin - Valerka and Bratik, Volodka and the narrator himself, who retained good memories of childhood , became, as it were, the source of his second story, “On the Night of the Big Tide” (“Ural Pathfinder”, 1977, No. 12). We meet the same main characters in the new work by Vladislav Krapivin, the final story of the trilogy, “Eternal Pearls”».