Winston Churchill's journalistic, historical, and political works are well known to many, but his fiction has never been published in Russian. Meanwhile, Churchill's novel "Savrola or the Revolution in Laurania" was a huge success at the time and went through several editions in England and America. The events of the novel take place in a fictional country. This country is single—handedly ruled by a cruel tyrant, against whom the protagonist of Savrol's book is rebelling, a staunch democrat and supporter of reform. The rebellious people overthrow the tyrant, he dies on the steps of his own palace. However, the victory of freedom and democracy is overshadowed by the machinations of a secret anarchist society, whose members are supporters of violence. In the image of the main character of the novel, Churchill showed himself and put into this character many of his character traits and his ideas about life. In 1953, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.