About the book: 1963 / A novel by the famous Soviet writer Dmitry Petrov (Biryuk) - a narrative spanning a quarter of a century: from the early twenties to the first post-war days. The action of the novel unfolds first on the Don, then in Moscow, then in Paris, the main characters of the work are honest Russian people devoted to their people and their homeland, who found themselves victims of repressions of 1937-1939.