it cannot be said that the writer participant in the patriotic war, viktor petrovich ostafiev, livedlife as a writer unrecognized, on the contrary, in the soviet union, having studied, but after the war at the same literary institute, starting to publish in 1951, during his lifetime he received the status of a living classic, having gone through all the stages necessary for that . - the film taiyozhnaya tale, in the seventy-ninth year the collected works were published, in the eighty -first year the third film adaptation - stard, in the eighty-first year he was awarded the order of friendship of peoples, in the eighty-third year the fourth film adaptation of the film twice born, in the eighty-third year the fifth film adaptation of the film beloved mine, in the eighty-sixth year, the sixth film adaptation . not a single book of his was banned. an example of his fate is the real vertical take-off of a former grandfather. of course, he achieved everything in life on his own, his rewards are commensurate with his enormous talent. after 1991, as a public figure, it was as if he had been