The article analyzes the creative activities of the historian, writer, and playwright Daniil Natanovich Alshits. In the article it is noted that he voluntarily went to the front in July 1941, having passed the combat path from an ordinary soldier to a senior lieutenant. In 1947 D.N. Alshits defended his thesis “Records to the personal chronicle of the 16th century (their origin and significance as historical sources)”, in 1982 - defended his doctoral thesis “Oprichnina and the formation of the apparatus of the power of autocracy: (Search for and study of new historical sources)”. D.N. Alshits was not only a talented historian but also an outstanding writer and playwright.