Book 1. What could be more interesting for kids than strong friendship and thrilling adventures?
As it happens, Timofey’s life had no shortage of adventures. How else could it be: turning from a village boy into a city gymnasium student almost by magic, unraveling the mystery of a strange gift, becoming “brothers” with a real prince, and winning, besides, the sympathy of a girl? After all, the spiteful Zina at first paid no attention to the new acquaintance...
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Book 2. A flood of fire swept the revolution into the measured life of ordinary people in Petrograd. None of them—when they woke up in the morning—was sure they would live to see evening; such incredible ordeals fell on the book’s heroes day after day. How can young doctor Timofey Petrov-Mokeev save his sworn brother Vsevolod Ezersky, an officer of the White Army, from imprisonment in the basement of the Revolutionary Military Council, where the commissar Klavdiya runs things—the very same person whom Timofey, as a child, had defended little Krysyu from?
And how to remain faithful to one’s duty and warm loved ones with the living warmth of one’s trusting heart when you are threatened, again and again, with arrest for your irreconcilable stance toward the activities of the “knights of the revolution”…?