Alexander Borshchagovsky was born in 1913 and was a popular writer who also wrote patriotic novels including The Russian Flag (1953) and Milky Way (1968). One story became a famous film Three Poplars on Plyushchikah (1967). Further films based on his stories were Only Three Nights (1969), Train to Tomorrow (1970), Door without a Lock (1973), Glass Beads (1978), the play The Ladies Tailor (1990) became a film that highlights the tragic mass murder of Ukrainian Jews by the Nazis at Babi Yar in the Ukraine in 1941. He died in 2006.
