In olden times. when the cavalry was on the march a rider was sent ahead of the force. and he was called a Gaidar. In literature this rider was Arkady Petrovich Golikov who chose the eloquent pen-name Gaidar. He lived a difficult. too short. but happy life. In 1919. a boy of fifteen as we see him on this picture.

Arkady Gaidar enlisted in the Red Army and till the end. till his last breath remained a fighter, first armed with a rifle and then with his inspired pen.

Designed by Igor Kravtsov
Translated from the Russian by Walter May

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