About the book: year / The Civil War is over. The country is rebuilding and getting used to peaceful life. The soldiers return home - they stand at the machines, operating tables, plows and teaching chairs. What could be better than doing what you love, bringing to fragile youthful minds what is reasonable, good, and eternal? Is it perhaps the arrival of an old friend and an offer that is impossible to refuse... Drop everything, pick up a notebook, a pencil and a revolver and go to the ends of the world? Well, why not??