The museum collection houses a semi-military-style jacket made of black wool-blend fabric, single-breasted. It has two patch pockets and two slit pockets, and a turn-down collar with large plastic buttons. Inside, it is lined with satin.

This piece of clothing belonged to the writer and journalist Arkady Petrovich Gaidar. He wore it in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

The writer lived modestly and owned few clothes. Arkady Petrovich traveled a lot around the country, meeting different people. He composed on the go, thought through his books while traveling, memorized whole pages, and then wrote them down in notebooks.

In January 1938, in the village of Golovkovo near Moscow, Arkady Gaidar was preparing the manuscript of “The Drummer’s Fate” for publication. In March, he left for Odessa, where he spent all spring and summer, adapting the script of the new novella for the Odessa Film Studio.

In June, he returned to Moscow. On November 2, the newspaper “Pionerskaya Pravda” published the beginning of “The Drummer’s Fate.” The rest was printed after Arkady Gaidar was awarded an order. Then the book was published as a separate edition.

In December 1938, in the village of Golovkovo, he wrote a story about Chuk and Gek. At first, the author titled it “The Telegram.” In the first issues of the newspaper “Pionerskaya Pravda” in 1939, the story was published under the title “Chuk and Gek.”

In July 1939, “The Drummer’s Fate” was published.

At the same time, in the Writers’ Rest House in Staraya Ruza, Arkady Petrovich began work on the novel “Duncan and His Team.” In October, he returned to Moscow. And at the end of the year, he received an urgent request to create a screenplay about Duncan and his team.

In April, a discussion of the screenplay took place at the Palace of Pioneers. A month later, Arkady Petrovich changed the name of the main character, as the director did not like the foreign name. Thus, Gaidar’s story received its final title “Timur and His Team.”

In September 1940, the first excerpt of the story was first published in the newspaper “Pionerskaya Pravda.” From that day on, “Timur teams” began to appear all over the country.

On June 24, 1941, Arkady Petrovich began working on the script of “Timur’s Oath” — the sequel to the book “Timur and His Team.”