About the book: 2013 / Konstantin Simonov is a famous Russian writer, who served throughout the war as a war correspondent, a poet who immortalized himself with the piercing poem “Wait for me, and I will return ...", the novel "The Living and the Dead", which became an epic fictional narrative about the path of the Soviet people to victory in the Great Patriotic War. In his epoch-making work, the author sought to combine two plans - a reliable “chronicle” of the main events of the war, seen through the eyes of the main characters Serpilin and Sintsov, and an analysis of these events from the point of view of their contemporary understanding and assessment of the writer. The second part of the trilogy describes the events of the Battle of Stalingrad - a turning point The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and on the screen the images of the main characters in the film "Retribution", created on the basis of the second book of the novel, were brilliantly embodied by the images of the main characters Kirill Lavrov and Anatoly Papanov.