Chuk and Gek

Arkady Gaidar – a legend. The most incredible stories have been told about his life, and all of them are pure truth. He himself said: «It was an ordinary biography in an extraordinary time». At 14, he went to the Civil War, at 17 he commanded a regiment, and he died on the front during the Great Patriotic War. He began writing in the 1920s of the 20th century and created a happy country in his works, which he himself believed in wholeheartedly. More than one generation of Soviet children grew up on his books.