Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Since 1993 Chebotaryov had been trying to produce a movie "Stalin and Tukhachevsky" about the tragic fate of the Soviet commander Mikhail Tukhachevsky. He claimed that his screenplay was based on the closed archives, yet he wasn't able to get enough financing. Just several days before he deceased an autobiographical book «From "Amphibian Man" to "The Battalions Request Fire"» had been published.