About the book: 2015 / The classic translation of Yaroslav Hasek's novel, made by Pyotr Grigorievich Bogatyrev, has become an integral part of Soviet culture and literature. The unique work of the famous prose writer and essayist Sergei Soloukh returns the reader to the era and cultural environment of which the Czech original was rightfully a part. The era of the Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns, Romanovs and millions of humble subjects of these monarchs. The same one in which exactly a hundred years ago, in 1914, the Great or, as they say now, the First World War broke out. It is unlikely that the reader will be able to relive all the storms and catastrophes of that time, but it seems to us that he will definitely want to re-read the great novel that has acquired its true taste and color.