About the book: 2015 / Defense of Sevastopol - the most intense and dramatic period of the Crimean War, but even at this time, when, it would seem, all the thoughts of the military and civilians were Life goes on only about how to repel the enemy. In a city where the besieged are “pushed as if in a mortar,” there is even a place for vaudeville stories, when a love triangle turns into a quadrangle, and then into a pentagon, and against this background it no longer seems particularly surprising that two officers, Pustynnikov and Sokolovsky, different as heaven and earth become friends, and then it turns out that one of them is not who he says he is.