“Sergei Maksimov belonged entirely to Russia. They don’t know him there now, but someday they will. His books will be read and reread, his sad fate will be lamented... The large and capacious literary form called the novel is for Maksimov a natural environment. It is spacious and easy for him, the twists and turns of the plot develop as if by themselves, the plot moves naturally and naturally, the characters are completely living people, and their speech is alive, and the author’s speech never sounds alienated from the life that fills the novel, but merged with it together... In short, “Denis Bushuev” was written entirely in the tradition of the Russian novel.” (Yu. Bolshukhin) ““Denis Bushuev” is a family novel, the action of which takes place on the Upper Volga during the years of collectivization and Stalinist repressions. In the center of the story, all the threads of which are drawn to the villages on the banks of the great Russian river, are the dramatic fates of the Bushuev, Akhtyrov and Beletsky families... The author shows how people's epiphany occurred. An exciting love affair adds poignancy and entertainment to the plot of the novel.” (V. N. Zapevalov)