As the Steel Was Tempered. Ostrovsky N.

Nikolai Alekseevich Ostrovsky (1904-1936) - a Soviet writer with a difficult fate - lived only 32 years. However, he managed to do a lot-and, in particular, created his famous epic novel “How Steel tempered”, which became the most published in the USSR by the work of fiction until 1986. This is an autobiographical work, but the whole difficult era of the Civil War and the first years of the formation of the Soviet regime fit in it.

The main conclusion of the writer: the most expensive person is life. “It is given to him once, and it is necessary to live so that it is not painfully painful for aimlessly lived years, so that it does not take a shame for a low and petty past, so that, dying, it can say: all life and all the forces were given to the most beautiful in the most world - the struggle for the liberation of mankind. "