Did political instructor Mikhail Alekseev know in 1942-1943, being at the very epicenter of the Battle of Stalingrad, that very little time would pass, and the works of the writer Mikhail Nikolaevich Alekseev “Soldiers”, “Roads-Roads”, “Heirs”, “Cherry” "Whirlpool", "Bread is a noun", "Uncrying Willow", "My Stalingrad" will put him on a par with the largest Soviet Russian writers of the 20th century?.. And could Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of state and literary prizes, writer M. Alekseev that tens of years after the end of the great battle a miracle would happen and he would have the opportunity to return to the harsh war years, to the origins of the “writer’s biography”...