How the Steel Was Tempered

Nikolai Alexeyevich Ostrovsky 1904 — 1936 — a Soviet writer with a heavy fate — lived only 32 years. However, he managed to accomplish much — in particular, he created his famous epic novel How the Steel Was Tempered, which became the most published work of fiction in the USSR until 1986. This autobiographical work encompasses the entire complex era of the Civil War and the early years of the establishment of Soviet power. The main conclusion of the writer: the most valuable thing for a person — is life. It is given to him only once, and it must be lived in such a way that there is no tormenting pain for aimlessly lived years, so that there is no shame for a petty and trivial past, so that, when dying, one can say: all life and all efforts were devoted to the most beautiful thing in the world — the struggle for the liberation of humanity.