Alexey Varlamov - prose writer, philologist, rector of the Literary Institute named after. A. M. Gorky, author of the novels “The Mental Wolf” (short list of the “Big Book”, “Student Booker”) and “My Soul Pavel”. Winner of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize and the Patriarchal Literary Prize. Alexei Varlamov’s new book includes “stories of the heart” - “Birth”, “Eva and Myasoedov” and “House in the Village”, travel essays from Europe and the USA and very personal notes about Russian literature, about the biography and creativity of Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Shukshin, Solzhenitsyn, Vodolazkin. “Eva and Myasoedov” is a collection of prose about the lost and found Word.