Idolizing the sky is one of his main leitmotifs, while another part of his lyrics was devoted to friendship.
The captivating and heroic book, viewed as historically accurate but fiction nonetheless, was classified in the Soviet school program for literature, but only after Fadeyev covenanted to rewrite portions of the book to satisfy the Communist Party in 1948.
Even after Ilya be taken captives in love with a wonderful woman he is too amorphous for any action.