Vsevolod Ivanov's collection "Military Stories and Essays" includes works about the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Here is the classic story “Brone Train 14-69”, and published in newspapers in the hot pursuit of events, but still exciting essays of 1941-1945. ("My Fatherland", "The Heart of the Country", "The Hour of Reckoning", "On the Kursk Arc", etc.. ), and stories about the selfless courage and fortitude of Soviet patriots ("To their own", "Bell about the sergeant", etc. ), and works about the distant past ("Under Borodin", "Near the old Smolensk road"), in which the writer, as it were, establishes the continuity of the heroic traditions of the Russian people Military stories and essays of Vsevolod Ivanov transfer the reader from one historical era to another, invariably causing deep reflections on the responsibility of each citizen for the fate of the Motherland, for the fate of the whole people.