This is the actual (likely apocryphal) story: https://www.livelib.ru/articles/post/44654-za-chto-kataev-poluchil-trojku https://www.livelib.ru/articles/post/446

This is the actual (likely apocryphal) story: https://www.livelib.ru/articles/post/44654-za-chto-kataev-poluchil-trojku https://www.livelib.ru/articles/post/44654-za-chto-kataev-po... This is the writer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Kataev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Kataev This is the granddaughter: https://www.facebook.com/tina.kataeva https://www.facebook.com/tina.kataeva This is the book: http://www.sovlit.net/sonofregiment/ http://www.sovlit.net/sonofregiment/ The story is that Tina's friend got help from Kataev on the school essay about his book. The essay was graded 3 (C) by her teacher. Kataev was very amused.