The characters of his novellas are: a poetess and a student, a journalist and a gamekeeper, a young operative seducing an elderly female official and planting a bribe on her for the sake of good reporting, the legendary army commander Mironov, who fell in love with a schoolgirl who shared his fate โ all of them, by their lives, tragically cut short or still continuing, confirm again and again a great truth: genuine life, freed from the bonds of lies and self-deception, is the comprehension of love.