Eto roman o voyne i o mire, a takzhe v kakoy-to mere entsiklopediya russkoy zhizni nachala i kontsa KhKh veka, khotya i otnyud" ne pretenduyushchiy na glubinu i psikhologizm romana L"va Tolstogo. Prosto dlya kazhdogo vremeni – svoi pesni, svoy yazyk i svoi problemy, kotorye komu-to vidyatsya glubzhe, chem vsem ostal"nym. Nu i, konechno zhe, eto roman o lyubvi (potomu, chto radi chego zhe eshchye zhit" na svete?!), o chelovecheskoy druzhbe i o… vsemogushchestve, ibo, o chem eshchye mogut po-nastoyashchemu mechtat" segodnya lyudi?! A eshchye eto roman o zakonakh prirody i obshchestva, kotorye upravlyayut nami pomimo nashego zhelaniya, no kotorye nam prosto nel"zya ne ispol"zovat", i takzhe o tom, k chemu my rano ili pozdno, tak ili inache no pridem obyazatel"no!Nu, a eshchye eto, po suti dela, gotovyy syuzhet dlya zakhvatyvayushchego teleseriala, kotoryy vy smozhete zaprosto sozdat" v sobstvennom voobrazhenii, predostaviv svoemu myslennomu vzoru i fantazii vse zdes" proiskhodyashchee.V osnovu mnogikh sobytiy etogo romana polozheny real"nye istoricheskie fakty, a takzhe sobytiya iz zhizni chlenov moey sobstvennoy sem"i, izvestnye mne po rasskazam moikh dedushek i babushek, eshchye vrode by sovsem nedavno zhivykh svideteley vsekh etikh groznykh sobytiy proiskhodivshikh v Rossii.