This novella is one of the very best works of literature for teenagers. The events described in it took place in Odessa in 1905, shortly after the suppression of the uprising aboard the battleship “Potemkin.” And in the novella, these real historical events are shown from the point of view of two boys—Petya and Gavrik. Together with them, the reader finds themselves right in the thick of what’s happening. It is a story about growing up, about coming into contact with real life—where not everything is simple…