This book is the third of a documentary series about the fate of Soviet writers. The first is “Node. Poets of Friendship and Breaks” is dedicated to the 1920s and 30s. The second is "Noah's Ark of Writers" about the evacuation of Soviet writers and their families during the war to Tashkent, Alma Ata, Chistopol and Yelabuga. Together, these books create a kind of fresco of Soviet literature of the Stalinist period, in which the life of a writer becomes a chain of compromises, often ending in his death. Today, at a new stage in the history of Russia, the process of personal “disintegration” of the artist and the artistic environment is becoming more relevant than ever.