Babelon steamer. Mamedov A.I.

The last May days of 1936, the height of repression. The officer conspiracy against Chopur (Stalin) and the Soviet-Polish war (1919-1921), whose events pass through the whole novel. Trotskyist Efim Milkin runs from the Chekists in Baku with the help of a former civil wife, actress and filmmaker Margarita Barsky. In the city of Vetrov, he accidentally meets the Moscow friend, correspondent of the newspaper Pravda, who is also hidden in Baku. A friend invites Efim to his Saturday meal and he falls in love with his younger sister. The feast quietly passes to the balcony of the house 20/67 The angle of the second parallel. All night, Efim tells young people a story from the life of the regimental commissioner Efimych. Whether the talented writer and the filmmaker will succeed in the last red commander, to avoid the persecution of the Chekists and add a novel or traitor, whom Efim has not been able to calculate for many years has already come to his trail? Family chronicles and a historical detective with a political background in which it is difficult to distinguish fiction from the truth, a historical fact from the fantasy of the author. The fates of the heroes of the novel are similar to the fate of many of our compatriots who found themselves on the symbolic steamer "Babelon" in the first half of the twentieth century.