A new novel by a classic of children’s literature — Vladislav Krapivin. The time of childhood and youth, the expanse of big rivers, friends, the first meeting with the city on the Neva, poems banned back then (more than half a century ago!) by poets… This has stayed in the author’s memory forever. And he decided to return once again to his childhood years, when his life held many riddles, discoveries, and mysterious stories that ultimately intertwined into an exciting adventure plot…