Vmeste s semei potomstvennykh vrachei Gradovykh chitateliu predstoit prozhit pochti tridtcat let KhKh veka - ot smerti Frunze do smerti Stalina. Rasstrely, piry, generaly, lageria, pytki v zastenkakh NKVD, Vtoraia mirovaia, seks, religioznye iskaniia, doprosy, diversii, zagovory, adiultery, salony, parki - vse est v etoi udivitelnoi knige! Nikita Gradov i Vadim Voinovich - istinnye russkie ofitcery, neslomliaemye, gordye, smelye, poriadochnye. Ikh tragediia v tom, chto, srazhaias za sovetskuiu vlast, oni v itoge pali ee zhertvami... "Pokolenie zimy" - pervyi tom trilogii.