In 1921, in a hospital for war invalids, the “killed” commander of the Eighth Army, Maksim Kravtsov, who had died in March 1920, regained consciousness. A former SR and staff-captain of the tsar’s army, a former member of the Central Committee of the VKP(b), personally acquainted with Lenin and half of the heroes of the Civil War—and himself awarded with two Orders of the Red Banner… In 1922, after two strokes, Lenin is already a political corpse, while Stalin and Trotsky don’t get along. And before the commander Kravtsov arises the question: who is he really on the way with…