Semyon Khmara

The authors, like Isaac Babel, rejected the depiction of battles, the simplification, and varnishing of reality, instead conveying the dramatic tension of the post-revolutionary years: the explosion of awakened human energy and the tragic collisions of destinies.

The love story of the great Roman commander Anthony and the oriental beauty Cleopatra, the tragic suicide of both, is recreated.

A Soviet agent tries to win over a band of gypsies to a happy life on a farm co-op.

Bolshevik Mravin, under the name of engineer Pyotr Ivanovich Lednev, risking his life, takes V.I. Lenin’s “Letter to the American Workers” to America. With the help of John Reed, he publishes it in one of the newspapers.